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SBSEP23 GX23090F Singapore above 3% again. Bye or Buy?

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Savers Heaven

Many of us are savers or simply someone who wish to get the best returns on idling cash. With the raising interest rate, it’s heaven for many people! One can easily get 2-4% with little or no risk.

Although it seems like interest rates hiking will last very long, but it is also likely that the rates will go down one day. Before the arrival of that day, Singapore Savings Bonds is a very good option that let you locked up decent rates for 10 years. Now the yield is above 3% for 10 years after a long while (read: SBAPR23 GX23040S – Singapore Saving Bonds (SSB) above 3% again. Buy or Bye?)

Is this a bye or buy?

SBSEP23 GX23090F

More about this Month Singapore Saving Bonds SBSEP23 GX23090F:

  • Average return over 10 years: 3.06%
  • 1st year to 10th year interest: 3.01 to 3.20%
  • Amount Offered: 600 millions
  • Interest Payment Date: Upcoming payment: 01 Mar 2024. Subsequent payments (until maturity): Every 6 months on 01 Sep and 01 Mar
  • Application Closing Date: 28 Aug 2023, 9pm
  • Allotment Date: 29 Aug 2023, after 3pm

Let’s see the breakdown of the 10 years rate.

1st year is 3.01% whereas the last year is 3.20% with average at 3.06%. Great rates (although lousier than the last issue with more than 3%. (read: SBAPR23 GX23040S – Singapore Saving Bonds (SSB) above 3% again. Buy or Bye?).

S$600.0 million are offered with last day of application on 28 Aug 2023, 9pm. Upcoming payment is on 01 Mar 2024 with subsequent payments (until maturity): Every 6 months on 01 Sep and 01 Mar.

Buy or Bye?

Hence, should we buy or bye?

Let’s us recap the advantages of SSB first:

  • Very safe – backed by Singapore Government
  • Locked down decent rates of around 3% for 10 years.
  • Easy to redeem and can redeem partial
  • Liquidity needs maximum of 1 month where you can get your money back. Hence suitable as emergency fund.
  • Limit of 200k should be good enough for most people.
  • Can build Bond Ladder to get monthly income (which I already did)

Let’s us recap the disadvantages of SSB:

  • Short term rates are lower than banks’ fixed deposits, money market funds such as MoneyOwl,etc of around 3.5% and above.
  • Risk Free 6 month treasury yield is close to 4% which is higher
  • Low returns
  • 1 month liquidity to redeem your funds may be too long for people who need the funds immediately.

Hence the question is should we buy or bye?

Comparatively, this issue is not better than the SBAPR23 issue few months ago but this is getting better. If we look at US treasury yield – 10 years rate is now 4%. Where is recession? Is the recession coming? Your guess is as good as mine.

But there is one very important thing that one should have regardless or recession or not is

WARCHEST!

But warchest has the issue of idling earning very little return, SSB would help to solve this. Personally, I would likely be buying some SSB for this month. I didn’t manage to get the GXS bank at 3.48% and my esaver 4% promotion of #m23a would end at 31 Aug 2023, this means I would have additional idling cash.

Market will be volatile for these few months (Aug, Sep, Oct), chances is I will be able to deploy these money! If not, I get some SSB or liquid bank account (or MMF) with higher interest to wait.

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