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 Fixed Deposit Rates in Malaysia V7, Please Read Post# 1 & 2

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Sitting Duck
post Oct 28 2014, 05:49 PM

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HLB Junior FD - 4.15% for 24 Months Tenure

I am very disappointed. I put some money into my Children's FD in HLB on the 17th of Oct but was given the old rate of 3.95% for 2 years instead of the new promotion 4.15% for 2 years.

Should I stop the FD that I've just put in. Take it out for a few days and then re-deposit it again with top up of few k?



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post Oct 29 2014, 10:56 AM

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QUOTE(guy3288 @ Oct 28 2014, 08:23 PM)
Say you go and withdraw your 3.95% Fd and put new FD at 4.15% tomorrow, you forego 12days of interest on your original FD to get the new rate 4.15%. Your new Fd starts from 29.10.14.

if your amount deposited is big, the extra 0.2% over 24 months can be significant.
if your amount is small eg. RM10,000.00,  the extra you get switching from 3.95% to 4.15% is only an additional RM27.00 over the whole 24 months period. Worth the trouble to go withdraw and redeposit?

If deposit RM100k, you get extra RM270, if 1 Million you get extra RM2,700.

So yes, the amount deposited does matter.
The bigger the amount deposited, the more you must go get the higher FD rate.

I would also add the tenure of FD also matters.
The longer the tenure, the more you must go for higher rate.

In the above example if both the 2 Fds are only for 6 months duration, forget about it! The the extra 0.2% cannot even cover your 12 days interest that you sacrificed.

So i wont get excited with any promo offering slightly higher rate but only for short tenure 3 - 6 months.
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Thanks for all the advice given. But I was hoping to get the 1 month FD interests first before withdrawing and re-deposit it.

From what I recall, HLB Junior FD is allow to perform partial withdrawal which I believe includes full withdrawal without penalty?

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