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 Ultimate Discussions of ASB1/2-Financing, questions/comments/criticisms welcome

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Tsukishiro
post May 21 2019, 11:49 AM

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Hi there. I need some opinions on my ASB loan. I took the full financing of 200k (with 4.90% rate) on Oct 2017 from Sotong Bank for 30 years. Have been paying RM1061.83 every month which includes insurance for the 1st 10 years(if not mistaken). Currently i've been paying from the money i've saved in ASB before decided to take the financing and will only be able to pay for up to the end of this year. Initial planning was to use current year distribution to pay for next year and so forth until end of 5th year then will terminate.

But after some thinking, i am thinking of terminating and re-apply for 100k financing for 30++ years. I can put aside max rm500 from my salary for the installment. I'm currently 30 years old.

What does anybody think about this?
Tsukishiro
post May 21 2019, 12:33 PM

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QUOTE(wild_card_my @ May 21 2019, 12:13 PM)
1. First of all you would have to consider the outstanding balance of your loan vs the RM200k certificate value. I do not know what was the ARTA (ASB-reducing-term-assurance) premium/contribution that was financed into the loan, but it should not be too significant. There should be capital returned to you once you close the account

2. Next, in general a financing of the full 200k is always better than 100k. You can either maintain the status quo (no refinance, just stay with Sotong) or you can refinance to a different bank, of which you need to consider:

a. tenure (max tenure is 35 years for you now at your age)
b. rate, best rate for new customers is around 4.75% p.a.
c. installment - it should be lower than what you are paying now, at this rate, RM200k financing = RM980/m for 35 years

3. Following point (2), the reason you may want to keep the 200k financing is to accelerate the growth of the softcap. You can do so by adopting a hybrid technique of monthly payment of RM500, and using part of the distribution to pay the remaining balance, which is RM480 a month. In this case, you would only need to take only RM480 x 12 = RM5,760 from the yearly distributions to supplement your instalments.
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You make very good points. I never thought about the hybrid technique.

So, if i were to refinance for 200k with the longest tenure, should i terminate first then apply for new loan or can i apply then terminate?

Also, which bank is offering @ 4.75%? Kindly PM me.

Thank you. biggrin.gif

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