Janice Yip
Are you Confusing Wealth Preservation Tools with Wealth Accumulation Tools?
"The return is too low." This is the common concern raised when proposing wealth preservation options to clients. Very often this...
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Janice Yip
Nov 2, 20236 min read
Is your Knowledge About Investment Linked Policies Outdated?
Table of contents Types of Investment Linked Policies Protection Investment Linked Policies 101 Investment Linked Policies Pros and Cons...
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Janice Yip
Mar 24, 20225 min read
Is The Fear Of Future Job Insecurity Stopping You From Long Term Investing?
As weird as the title sounds, this concern is real to a certain group of people living in Singapore. This is prevalent in 2 groups of...
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Janice Yip
Dec 9, 20217 min read
4 Financial Takeaways To End 2021 With
It's year end and I am doing my year end reflections as a financial consultant. 2021 has been a rollercoaster year. We got 2 new Covid...
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Janice Yip
Nov 12, 20217 min read
Why Solely Saving Money In The Bank Is Impractical
There's really very little incentive to invest your money or take up any financial instruments when you see your bank balance growing...
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Janice Yip
Aug 8, 20216 min read
Are you Missing out On These 3 Lesser Known Benefits In Financial Planning?
Largely due to imperfect information, we often do not know what are our best options available for our life situation until we are...
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Janice Yip
Jul 18, 20216 min read
Do You Have The What If Syndrome?
One of the biggest reasons people procrastinate making long term financial commitments is largely due to 'what ifs'. More often than not,...
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Janice Yip
Jul 12, 20218 min read
Why Is There So Much Stigma Towards Investment ILPs?
Recently I was asked why does the market have so much stigma towards Investment Linked Policies (ILPs) and if it has its place in the...
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Janice Yip
May 1, 20215 min read
Why The Idea That Financial Solutions Are 'Expensive' Is Terribly Flawed
This is going to be a pretty short article. It's motivated from meeting a number of clients who seem to perceive financial solutions as...
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Janice Yip
Apr 24, 20216 min read
Why Most 'Saving Plans' Are Long Term & Lack Flexibility?
Recently, someone approached me to look into saving solutions and seem to be expecting something with good flexibility while having...
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Janice Yip
Mar 26, 20217 min read
How Good Debt Can Help You & Bad Debt Can Harm You
As a FA, people consult me for all sorts of money issues. In the recent weeks, I encountered this question, "should I take a loan to...
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Janice Yip
Feb 28, 20216 min read
5 Wealth Management Trends That Can Reduce Future Buyer Remorse
Over the Chinese New Year break, I've had some very interesting discussions with friends on 2 topics. Future trends developing in society...
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Janice Yip
Feb 8, 20216 min read
Why Investing As And When You Have Money May Not Be The Best Idea
In my line of work, it's pretty common to meet people who make financial purchases out of convenience. This was especially the case when...
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Janice Yip
Jan 3, 20215 min read
Your Money Mindset Will Influence Your Kids Development
Parents invest heavily in their children nowadays and even though most won't admit it, some view children as their retirement plan....
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Janice Yip
Dec 25, 20206 min read
The Best Christmas Gift For Your Future Self
You always see people asking famous personalities this question, 'if you could give an advice to your younger self, what would you...
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Janice Yip
Dec 15, 20205 min read
Taking Up Financial Instruments Is Not Equal To Financial Planning
As someone growing up in a family where my parents saved their way to financial freedom, I take wealth management seriously. I have seen...
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Janice Yip
Nov 29, 20205 min read
Why Annuities can be a Useful 2nd Emergency Fund
Our typical understanding of an emergency fund is one that is untouchable and typically yields close to no returns because we need to...
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Janice Yip
Oct 2, 20206 min read
Don't Expect To Be Sold A Solution. Look For A Consultative Approach Instead!
I have been wanting to write about this topic after having done a number of talks over the past 2 years. It's interesting because the...
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Janice Yip
Aug 9, 20204 min read
How Robust Is Your Portfolio When You DIY?
This will be a very short article because I've a backlog of CI applications to clear. I want to touch on the topic of DIY after some...
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Janice Yip
Jun 27, 20208 min read
5 Things People Should Not Do With Their Money Just Because They Can
Today I'll be writing an interesting article on 5 really counterproductive behaviours people do with their money that is seriously not...
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