Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls
MBSB 4.7% + TS 2.8% vs AMB 4.55% +TS 2.8%
Minimum amount here = RM10k

AMB = AMbank
TS 2.8 = Truesavers
EIR = Effective Interest rates
From here we can see that even with monthly interest, Ambank 4.55% still lose out to MBSB 4.7%. MBSB is still the champ here.

However notice that the EIR of MBSB only increase 0.30943% while AMB increases by 0.32766% which shows that you could get more money if there is say a FD able to give you 4.7% monthly interest.

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yygo is right. If we put 1 year FD with the interest, the EIR can go up further.

But that can only be done from 2nd year onwards (Starting amount of RM10k). Unless one starts off with RM100,000.
I didn't include in the last month interest of TS of the 5th year as I assume the FD will pay the interest at the end of the month. So if we would like to see the last month interest, we need to go another year. I used 2016 as it is easier to count.
By the way,
aeiou228 how come your EIR is 5.23% Vs 5.10 while mine is only 5.00943% vs 4.87766%?

Your method is add to principal to get the EIR of 5.23% Vs 5.10%?
This is the first time I am calculating this kind of things. Any mistakes please correct me.
This post has been edited by Ramjade: Oct 16 2015, 01:33 AM