Market Update + Saver UOB One Account 4% starting from 1 May 2024

There was a revision of the UOB One account Interest announced in early April. Well, it was effective rate of 5% (highest in market) for many months for 100k.

With the new update, it would become 4% with 150k! Wah I need to take up another 50k to maintain lesser interest.

Well, such is life, some anticipate Fed cut rate, some anticipate it rises.

Calculated effective new rates

Effective interest rates (from 1st May 2024) are:
$100,000 3.375%
$125,000 3.60%
$150,000 4.00%

This is where we are now.

Treasury Rate

Yen Carry Trade + Yen Slide

Don’t forget Yen Carry Trade. Yen sliding.

Other Options for savers

Next month likely the SSB rate will be higher too!

Should be 3.2% to 3.3% for 10 years average rate! I might be adding more provided I still have funds left after taking advantages of the market!

Let’s Recap First!

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 have already did)

Let’s us recap the disadvantages of SSB:

Short term rates are lower than banks’ fixed deposits, money market funds such 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.

Market will be volatile in early part of May. Mark my words.

Collect Money First

Anyway, collect money first.

As of now, based on those already declared.
Think if including those haven’t announced, I should get about 10k in May/June.

Deal 1:

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Deal 2:

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Receive a S$25 FairPrice E-Voucher from your first card spend as a credit card customer or when you make your first S$500 deposit for Savings account
Many other attractive vouchers in the app – refresh every month
No minimum balance account and can earn up to 2.5% for the first 125k

No foreign transaction fee, great exchange rates when overseas. See my review via Trust Card – Excellent Card for overseas usage.

Deal 3:

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Deal 4:

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You can read my review here.

Battle of Enough VS Spending for Financial Bloggers

Money just buy you the chance of freedom but can’t buy back time. In life, there is no reset button. Time is limited but money is not.

When you are young and working, you exchange time for money. When you are old, you can have lots of money but you can’t buy time back, especially the things that you have missed (your strong health, time with young child) while busying striking out in career.

Your kids grew up and they no longer need you to accompany them. They no longer want to sit on your lap to share/do things with you…all these time you spent in your 9 to 6 or even longer cubicles…can the money that you have earned by you back these?

We always thought we have more time with our old parents, but we are wrong. Time with them is ticking away every day. One day it will suddenly be gone. There is no regret medicine, no reset in time. Gone is gone and cannot come back. No matter you are billionaires or millionaires, you cannot reset this.

We always thought that we have more time with our spouse every day, but we are wrong. One day they will be gone too. When you read this, please go tell your spouse that you love him/her and he or she is the best thing that you ever had in your life.

Love your life daily. You have one less day with your spouse, parents, children and yourself. Time is ticking away.

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Market Update + Saver UOB One Account 4% starting from 1 May 2024

Calculated effective new rates

Treasury Rate

Yen Carry Trade + Yen Slide

Other Options for savers

Let’s Recap First!

Collect Money First

Deal 1:

Deal 2:

Deal 3:

Deal 4:

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Calculated effective new rates

Treasury Rate

Yen Carry Trade + Yen Slide

Other Options for savers

Let’s Recap First!

Collect Money First

Deal 1:

Deal 2:

Deal 3:

Deal 4:

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