Sharon (Management Trainee) I Met Syamim randomly because I signed up to get a personal finance booklet on IG. But best decision ever.
“I wont advise you to invest until 6 months later, after we have tracked your cash flow”
“There are more packages but I won’t sell those, cause they are really not worth. I can run through them but will refer you to someone else if you really want to buy.”
“Me: I don’t really know how cpf and income tax works
Syamim: *prepares an entire ppt and lecture to educate me”
“Me: I have random insurance that my parents buy from different companies, but I don’t really know what they are.
Syamim: *makes me send him screenshots from SingPass, pdfs from AXA and the GE app on my dad’s phone to find out what I have.”
If those quotes weren’t enough, the final stroke for me was;
“Syamim: *pulls out an excel sheet 10 mins into our first meeting to start calculating my cash flow and planning for things like holidays to marriage to dental appointments.”
I have met more than 5 financial advisors, but all seemed to just want to “grow my wealth”. While that is important, I think understanding my wealth and giving me handles to manage it is much more important. At our age, really think financial literacy is the way to go. Syamim keeps up to date and is a really good teacher, even asked him if he considered being one. What he does is to give you the necessary knowledge to manage your own finances and make the most well informed decisions.
Coming full circle, he is everything a financial advisor should be but usually isn’t - giving you good financial advise and lets you decide.
What everyone else does is tell you how to grow your wealth, how to invest, how to beat inflation, another savings plan, another plan to diversify, or simply instilling some fear of the future to help you ‘invest’ early.
So for all the lost souls and fresh graduates, Syamim is definitely the guy for you. I’ve actually never met anyone else who pulls out an excel sheet to plan my finances instead of drawing me some triangle, timeline or graph.
He is open to teaching and advising those who already has insurance plans too, no strings attached!! So feel free to reach out. If you feel bad just get him a drink though he will probably tell you to wait till you gain enough income to buy him one :)) |