Got a not so pleasant surprise in the mail today, although I already see it coming, just did not expect it to come so fast.
This is an urgent update on BOC SmartSaver’s revised features, which would take effect from 1 December 2016, as below captured from BOC website:
As you can see, the hurdles have just been raised higher. If we could only fulfill the same conditions in the past, our effective interest rate would have fallen from 3.55% to 2.35%, a drop of 1%! (base interest rate: 0.4%)
There is an extra savings bonus as below:
However, you might want to be careful about putting more than $50k in a bank as the Singapore dollar deposits of non-bank depositors are insured by the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation for up to $50k in aggregate per depositor per Scheme member by law.
As compared to OCBC 360’s interest rate of 2.25% for similar conditions, the BOC interest rate is only slightly higher at 2.35% now. It makes me wonder if I should switch my salary crediting back to OCBC 360 from Dec?
I will think about it. How about you?
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