Category Archives: Loans

Planning for your home loan instalments

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Gwen

    In my previous post, I shared a quick figure.   So how can you do a quick financial planning with this knowledge?   Let’s say you would like to buy a new house, a resale HDB flat. A … Continue reading →

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Some loan figures at a glance

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Gwen

  I was doing some HDB loan calculations and was wondering about monthly repayment amounts.   I thought I would share a quick figure for anyone, who might be like me, needing a quick estimation of loan repayment amounts.   … Continue reading →

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CPF Interest Rates

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Gwen

  Do you know CPF interest rate is reviewed quarterly?   For the quarter from July 2013 to September 2013, rates remained unchanged at 2.50% per annum for Ordinary Account (OA).   Also, for the first $60,000 of a member’s … Continue reading →

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HSBC credit rates

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Gwen

  If you are familiar with credit loans, credit lines, this post is an update on one of the promotional interest rates offered by HSBC. The effective interest rate works out to be about 13+%. in my personal opinion, it’s … Continue reading →

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