Is this yet another deception?

[R123]

The following company is advertising heavily on the net:

https://www.nowcompare.com/thailand/en/health-insurance?

One of the many "investments" advertised is a guaranteed 10% annual return on deposit.

This sounds "too good to be true"

Has anyone any experience with this company?

Edited September 20, 2014 by CharlieH

[KittenKong]

Perhaps a mod would like to remove the affiliate link at the end of that URL? I'm sure it got there accidentally.

Apart from that the site appears to be about health insurance comparisons rather than investments offering 10%.

[R123]

Within the web site ostensibly for health insurance, they claim to offer 10% pa guaranteed

Edited September 20, 2014 by CharlieH

[pitrevie]

If you are being promised around 7% more than what is being offered by the banks then either its being run by Bernie Madoff or its a scam.

[Suradit69]

Ask yourself if you'd really want to hand over your money to someone you know nothing about and then you'll sit back worry-free & comfortably anticipating 10% returns on your "deposit" for years to come.

There are no guarantees no matter who you "invest" with, but randomly picking a name off the Internet that you never heard of before has "disaster" written all over it. The Nigerian Lottery advertises heavily too ... or could that be a deception too?

[Kabula]

If you can't touch it, you don't own it!

[Triplebank999]

Within the web site ostensibly for health insurance, they claim to offer 10% pa guaranteed

There's no mention of that on the website that's been linked to. Maybe you could copy the section you are reading and post it here?

[Triplebank999]

"One of the many "investments" advertised is a guaranteed 10% annual return on deposit."

Where?

[R123]

In my post number 3 i gave the link but someone called CharlesH for reasons never told to me removed that link. I wonder why? perhaps something to do with the fact the company advertises heavily on this web site?

within the web site the company offer 10% pa on a 9 year investment see:

9 Year(s) 10% 135.79%

Email Det

See:

https://www.nowcompare.com/thailand/en/savings-bonds/results?condition=eNpFjb0OgyAURp-mO0LTxrHRYjFB0sRqYRMZBKU4aP15-qIOHe5yc75zeO4C9hlWZu4L06mVFoOqDEdezr16tJohemG50wqHurYdqN6ZI2bj2wuxgkqYNSrpvlKTa726s3eAKsG9TPAoov03U7_nqFhqW4wqChoBX7uXGqcz8zwa8Z_h6OjS1WkB0-nocd_Dg0SbY_dCpgmk8W3y53lwQvEPClFGOA,

DO NOT edit my posting again Charles H!

Edited September 21, 2014 by R123

[R123]

ps to triplebank 999 I send you a pm. with the link. I had posted the link in my number 3 posting but without my permssion and for reasons not known someone called CharlesH removed the link.

Edited September 21, 2014 by R123

[ToddinChonburi]

well, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, are you sure it is a duck.

[Guitar God]

Bangkok bank offered me a whole life insurance policy where you pay 600k a year for 7 years (4.2M total), they give me back 80k every year and at the end of the 7 years they give me 3.7 M back.

All the while I have a 4M life insurance that increases every other year after 7 years to 5M or 6M.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Beats the hell out of 1.1% pa interest in a fixed account.

[Robert24]

Personally I don't like life insurance products as an investment. You also see with the quoted Bangkok Bank example that when you calculate the return you are around 5% which is not that much even if the numbers look interesting at first glance. But you always have to calculate it through and those companies like to make it complicated ie by not paying back the full amount paid in and making the interest look high (especially the first year, afterwards it's much lower).

However if you do choose to buy a life insurance product, do go with a solid counterparty as you obviously have the full counterparty risk (credit risk) should the company go bust you may not get back anything.

[Seligne2]

No one. Repeat, no one, can "guarantee" you a 10% return.