If you bought Great Eastern investment-linked policy, such as Greatlife Portfolio Insurance and Supreme Flexilink Insurance, you will receive a quarterly statement. If your policy is in forced on 7^th of January, your first statement should be printed a few days after 7^th April, and subsequently every three months. Almost everybody find it hard to understand the statement. Of course there is exception such as some of my engineers or accountants clients who never asked for my help. So I decided to write a details guide on it.

Look at the sample below:

Let’s break down the details and I will explain how to read each section.

How much is the existing fund?

The first part is the balance of unit brought forward. Your policy money is stated in number of unit. As shown in the example, the policy currently has 917.35 unit of Fund 02 (Lion Growth Fund) and 501.11 unit of Fund 05 (Lion Progressive Fund). So how do we convert the unit into real ringgit value? It is shown in the statement too:

Fund 02 (RM) = No. of unit x unit price = 917.35 x 1.006 = RM922.85

Fund 05 (RM) = No. of unit x unit price = 501.11 x 1.860 = RM932.06

In short, that is the amount of money left in the policy on 5^th Jan 2007 – RM1854.91

Deduct policy fees

In order to pay for the policy fees of RM6/month, Great Eastern deduct 2.97 unit of Fund 02 and 1.62 unit of Fund 05 from the policy on 5^th Jan 2007.

Deduct Insurance charges

The total insurance charge is RM54.91 from 05/12/2006 to 05/01/2007. You can read the itemized protection which is known as rider in a policy and the respective monthly charges. After deducting the unit, the balance is shown as 887.22 for Fund 02 and 484.66 for Fund 05.

New premium invested

The policy premium is due on the 5^th of every month. You can see that the premium paid is being used to buy more investment fund unit on 7^th Jan 2007. From the RM85 paid for Fund 02, only RM68 is allocated to buy unit, but RM17 is unallocated. This means 20% of the premium is being charged to pay for the initial acquisition fees. This shows that the policy is in the 3^rd or 4^th year. When the policy is in the 7^th year, all premiums paid will be 100% allocated for investment.

Tips: It is better for the policy holder to pay premium for policy older than six years because of the highest allocation after six year.

Summary

Actually after you know how to read the statement, you probably won’t be interested to read the details in the future. But you will be very interested to read this summary page. It shows the total investment value of your policy and also the grand total death benefit, which in this case is equal to the sum of death benefit plus the investment value.

I wish this article will enable you to understand your policy statement in the future. I am glad that you are insured

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