Sunday, August 16, 2009

It is easy to be cheated

Here is a reminder about the link on the right panel, which gives you a list of articles on how you can be cheated, and how to avoid being cheated.

Lack of product knowledge

Here is a letter entitled "Appalled at the lack of product knowledge at NTUC Income" published in the Straits Times Online Forum and the comments to this letter.

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There is an enormous gap between what the CEO says in his note to client and the reality of his organization. The apparent post-Tan Kin Lian slippery slope down is steep and inevitable when the top no longer walk the talk, otherwise how do you explain the rot?
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Distribution of bonus

Read this letter in the Straits Times entitled, "Policyholders in the dark about how bonus are distributed". A reader has copied two items from my blog written a few months ago and posted in the online forum. I hope that these items now receive more attention.

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Survey results - National Service (2)

This is a popular survey. 97 replies were received within 18 hours. Here are the updated results.
Join this survey, if you are a male citizen who have completed full time National Service.

Benefits for citizens and permanent residents

BT Kojak has prepared this table to summarise the benefits for citizens and permanent residents, as taken from the ICA website. The benefits for citizens are not much better than permanent residents, but carries the heavy obligation of National Service. I hope that this imbalance be redressed, so that it does not become a burden to be a citizen.

Names of 10 financial institutions

I have arranged to make the placards showing the names of the 10 financial institutions that sold the credit-linked note and were found by MAS to have failed in compliance with the regulations.

These placards are to help the investors to congregate together and get to know the other investors.

Can someone help me to find the names of the 10 FIs and post them here. You can get them from the MAS report.

Indonesian President gives 13th month bonus to teachers

Read this wonderful gesture from a President does earns only US130,000 a year.

Survey results - National Service

This survey is popular. It attracted 48 replies within 6 hours. Here are the preliminary results.

Join this survey, if you are a male citizen who have completed full time National Service.