Financial advisors in Sinagpore

[petemul]

Kid2kid akid whatever!
If I offended you I am sorry though you appear to be easily upset.
It's fairly easy to get confused with the 2 of you, one saying works on commission only then the other saying I work on either commission or fees then are we left to assume that you are husband and wife, or just a coincidence the names are so similar and posting at the same times-man it gets complicated.
You led the conversation down the path of whether advice was a good thing or not but now you get upset because you don't get the answer you demand- women!
Lady what do you want? People leaving messages "oh yes please just what singapore needs we are crying out for salesmen to come and flog us a pension!"

[Strong Eagle]

Can anyone out there just give me a straightforward response and some helpful advice???

I was giving you a straight up answer. Advisors come crawling out of the woodwork here. Every expat here has been approached at least once via phone or email about an "opportunity" with an advisor, and many are also asked to pass on the cards of people they know. It is sometimes the theme of conversation over a beer.

An expat advisor is not going to get a Singaporean's business as they are a pretty tight knit crowd, and there are a rather limited number of expats... the number I heard is somewhere around 80,000... a small market with plenty of competition. There are lots of local financial advisors as well and lots of free, "educational" seminars deisgned to develop sales leads. You will also be competing against the private banking arms that all the big banks have.

As I said before expats who advise and end up here want to advise on the basis of what they know... they want to manage assets based in the home country. Or, they want me to take my entire investment program and convert it to something they know and I don't... a high risk for me.

You will also be competing against advisors who remain in the home country, which the expat may have been using for some time.

If you have global advising experience, with your pulse on ANZ, MY, KR, TH, and such, you have intimate knowledge of tax law as it relates expat investments, and you also have a knowledge of real estate in Asia, then maybe you could build a niche business for those expats who have investment portfolios in a home country but might wish to look at international investment opportunities outside the tax system of the home country. Business owners would be interested in how to protect profits from tax at sale of the business.

I'll be the first one to say that there are lots of ways to make money and perhaps you have the magic needed to be successful here. I just think that it's a hard market to break into... and that's from the point of view of the consumer, not as an advisor.

[kid2kid]

Eagle - thanks for that. Much better than yesterdays approach I think!!

Everyone has their own opinion about advisors and that is something they are entitled to. Maybe I took the wrong approach by requesting a little information on this forum, but as I am not yet in Singapore then I assumed it would be a good thing to do.

And contrary to what the other guy said, I wasn't upset (clearly he is not able to differentiate between assertive and angry), and if he was to flick back to my original question would see that I was just trying to get things back on track.

[Strong Eagle]

And contrary to what the other guy said, I wasn't upset (clearly he is not able to differentiate between assertive and angry), and if he was to flick back to my original question would see that I was just trying to get things back on track.

But I suspect you do like to be right.