WealthBT22 Aug 2021

S1E4: The profitability of integrated shield portfolios: WealthBT Ep 4

Synopsis: Learn to protect and grow your wealth in this new Business Times monthly podcast series for affluent individuals.

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:

Integrated Shield plans’ loss making trend since 2015; what happened in 2020? (1:11)
Four factors that helped push Shield portfolios into the black (3:55)
What does this mean for premiums? (8:46)
In the pipeline: More changes for Shield; payouts for cancer drugs to be aligned with MediShield Life and new sub-limits likely (9:33)

Produced by: Genevieve Cua (gen@sph.com.sg), Howie Lim & Lee Kim Siang

Edited by: Howie Lim

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