Shall we lock in our Fixed Deposit Rate?

Recently, I assisted a couple client to lock in their fixed deposit at circa 3% p.a permanently as a measure to minimize the irregular rate of return in their regular passive income after we did a holistic review on their asset allocation.

During our review, we do note that while investment are the key catalyst to growth our wealth, Bank Fixed Deposit (FD)/Singapore Savings Bond(SSB)/Treasury Bill(TBill) remain as popular avenue being used as risk hedging by most of us and we took this onto our consideration. All these three avenues have similar characteristic, namely low risk, short term certainty and self monitored/administered.

Lets take a look at the past 10 years SSB & TBill rate in the chart below:

source: Here

based on the above data, even if one diligently snowballing and rolling over these SSB/TBill without delay upon maturity, the average annualized return in the past 10 years is still nowhere near 3% p.a.

(Data is accurate as of 29 July 2024)

However, we did a tweak and implemented a customized solution as their goal isn’t short term certainty, rather a long term certainty.

Feel free to contact us should you like to book a consultation for a review and let us work on a solution for your financial aspiration.

Important: The information and opinions in this article are for general information purposes only. They should not be relied on as professional financial advice. Readers should seek unbiased financial advice that is customised to their specific financial objectives, situations & needs. This advertisement or publication has not been reviewed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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Fendy Susanto

Fendy hails from a family who value entrepreneurship, where he understands that ones’ finance is ones’ responsibility. He follow suit after leaving his decade-long career in construction industry, becoming a Financial Advisor, an Entrepreneur and a Content Creator.

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