In this volatile market, more investors are looking for conservative investment with capital preservation. That's why there are so many structured fund being launched recently, including PNB Structured Investment Fund and Takaful MyAl-Afdhal. The latest structured investment fund from Great Eastern is the Centennial Max Plan. If you are looking for something that has potential to beat the return of Fixed Deposit and gives a capital protection feature, structured funds might be your cup of tea. Below is the information taken from Great Eastern about the newly launched Centennial Max Fund. FREQUENTLY-ASKED ...

I am glad to receive investment-linked funds annual report for last year in CD format from insurance companies. The first copy I received is from AIA. Later, I got a few copies mailed from Great Eastern. Previously, all the report were printed in hard copy format. Annual Report in CD format I personally feel that it is a good move. Not only it is greener because of less paper being wasted, it also saves us a lot of office space. I can keep the report in my PC. Whenever I need to ...

I was quoted on Malay Mail today on life insurance issue. You can read the article here. This article also appears on the printed version of Malay Mail today on page 21. It is too bad that I can't find the newspaper here in Penang. I tried several newsstand but yielded no luck. I would appreciate it if anyone can email me a scanned copy.

In conjunction of Great Eastern Life Assurance's 100th anniversary, a new slightly modified regular premium investment-linked plan was launched for a limited time. As stated in the brochure, "limited time" is actually an unknown period. But I doubt that it will still be available after this year. So what's new in this plan? Same premium, higher protection I wrote about the other best selling regular premium investment-linked plan before, called Greatlife Portfolio Insurance, also known as Great Protectlink Insurance. The new Centennial AddVantage Insurance (CAI) offers exactly the same features as GPI, but with ...

Paying premium for life insurance policy as long as possible is one of the best form of saving you should have. I am talking about your old policies, your existing policies which are still in force now. Perhaps you stopped paying the premium because it reaches the "critical years", or you plan to lapse the existing one in order for you to afford new insurance plans. But don't be stupid. Beware of the worst advice from insurance agent. Where is your premium? Your insurance premium is not 100% allocated for your policy ...

I just visited the campaign website of Great Eastern in conjunction of 100th anniversary celebration - live100percent. If you have been there, one thing you will probably complain about is the slow loading time because the entire content was built with flash. GE is giving away one special tour every week for 52 consecutive weeks to his policyholders, who registered, randomly. Although I waited quite a while for the site to load, it is really worth the wait. You can play simple flash games, and read blogs of contest winner. One of the ...

Leading life insurance giant, Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad (Great Eastern), is pleased to announce on 19th February, 2008 that it will give a Special Bonus for the year 2007 with face amount close to RM900 million to more than 1 million policyholders nationwide.This Special Bonus will be given to close to 1.5 million eligible Participating Regular Premium Whole Life and Endowment policies, which are ...

A recent data reported by NST shows the estimation of between nine and 13 per 100,000 people compared with eight in the 1980s commit suicides. However, health experts say the figure could be higher. Of particular concern is the suicide rate in the Indian community in peninsular Malaysia. It is estimated that 30 to 35 Indians in 100,000 commit or attempt suicide as against 15 Chinese and six Malays. The main causes of suicide in Malaysia were financial problems, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, childhood abuse ...

I often got this question about life insurance from readers, prospects and clients -- Should I lapse my existing policy in order to buy a new one? My answer is always a big NO. You can buy a new life insurance policy, but surrendering your existing one is always not to your benefit. Why you shouldn't surrender your existing policy Photo by kiddharma 1. Your existing policy was bought "previously", which means you are younger at that time. The premium rate should be cheaper if you are going to get it now. 2. Cash ...

You have heard of unit trust switching, which is a way to lock your investment gain without paying double service fees. As mentioned in my previous article about the secret of unit trust investment, switching need to be done from time to time and integrated into your portfolio rebalancing strategy. But this post, we are going to discuss about insurance switching, nothing to do with investment actually. What is insurance switching? Insurance switching is an industry jargon that's actually not known to most life insurance agents. If you follow through all my ...