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I had made 2 withdrawals over last 2 years and kind of regret this decision and i did not access my situation well and bought the WL plan. Should I terminate / convert to paid up for my WL plan and buy a term plan with higher coverage at lower cost? (understand that term life has no cash value).
I had reduced my SA for ILP to go full allocation of premium into investment.
I had also just started with POSB invest saver.
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Loh Tat Tian
12 Nov 2018
Founder at PolicyWoke (We Buy Insurance Policies)
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Brandan Chen
09 Nov 2018
Financial Planner at Manulife Singapore
Similar thoughts as Hariz.
You should speak to your financial advisor first, and discuss your priorities in the following order:
After figuring out the right amount of coverage to have, you should work on the budget to make sure it is comfortable and affordable to you. Insurance is a risk management tool, its not meant to burden your finances.
As for the termination of the WL, unlikely converting it to a paid up policy would give you much value (since it appears that you only signed it in 2014)
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Hariz Arthur Maloy
09 Nov 2018
Independent Financial Advisor at Promiseland Independent
Your ILP is just another investment vehicle. If your portfolio is sound, there's nothing wrong with ...
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It seems to be you are not at all familiar with the various tools and products at your disposal. You will need to understand what you are buying.
1) Focus on getting value for the plans you already had. Understand what are they used for. We also need to know what ILP you have bought. Timebomb ILPs drain your value by fees and cost of insurance. Using something that is suppose to be for long term, to fulfill a short term gap is not ideal at all.
2) For insurance, please cover the most important insurance, (a) medical insurance, followed by either Disability income / Critical illness insurance. Term life (till age 65) is for your dependents / total & permanent disability (which should taper down as you age, as there will be less liabilities).
3) For Whole Life, its meant to be bundled with CI (because term death/TPD is so cheap... BTIR works even with your high interest saving account/SSB).
Work with someone whose knowledge in insurance is excellent and is able to understand ROI needed to cover the cost of insurance (so that you can do a comparison).