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Is there a place for insurance investment schemes like AXA pulsar/treasure to stay ever since the rise of Robo-advisors that offer cheap management fees?
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Elijah Lee
16 Sep 2019
Senior Financial Services Manager at Phillip Securities (Jurong East)
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Cedric Jamie Soh
15 Sep 2019
Director at Seniorcare.com.sg
Don't mix insurance with investment.
Inevitably, you will invite extra management fees (from the insurers), extra admin costs, extra sales charge etc.
Every insurance-investment policy has this admin/policy fee stuff that no one can ever explain...
$5 per month for policy fees
Feeder fund policy fees, where insurer charge a small fee for sending your money to the investment fund (where u could have done it yourself)
management fees are usually higher than normal funds.
sales charge (to the adviser and manager and his director)
and of course mortality charges.
worst of all? they don't get these fees from the money you paid directly. Your money buys units in the funds, then they deduct the units from your fund immediately to pay those charges. You know why? Coz they get to earn an extra 5% off the spread between bid-ask for the funds.
EXTRA PROFITS for them =)
Get Investment straight from the investment experts.
You don't go to a dentist to ask for cardio heart issue right?
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Jonathan Chia Guangrong
15 Sep 2019
SOC at Local FI
If such products are not advisor driven i.e being pushed or recommended by agents to end consumers, ...
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I echo the sentiments of the other answers here and will recommend you separate insurance from investments. You can do better investing directly or via an advisor without being subjected to the myriad of terms and conditions that come with a policy contract.