WealthBT: The profitability of integrated shield portfolios (Ep 4)

12:45 min

Synopsis: Learn to protect and grow your wealth in this new Business Times monthly podcast series for affluent individuals, hosted by BT wealth editor Genevieve Cua.

In this fourth episode of the WealthBT podcast, BT's wealth editor Genevieve Cua looks into the profitability of Integrated Shield portfolios. Most insurers' Shield results staged a turnaround in 2020. What does this mean for you?

She tackles the following points:

1. Integrated Shield plans' loss making trend since 2015; what happened in 2020? (1.06) 2. 4 factors that helped push Shield portfolios into the black (3.51) 3. What does this mean for premiums? (8.43) 4. In the pipeline: more changes for Shield. Payouts for cancer drugs to be aligned with MediShield Life and new sub-limits likely (9.28)

Produced by: Genevieve Cua (gen@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Lee Kim Siang

Edited by: Howie Lim and Hadyu Rahim

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