"Dear ___________,
I have just read that Zurich Life Insurance are expanding their ops in Singapore by getting a direct insurance license to deal with the mass affluent market (rather than accredited investors). Given that we already deal with them in the UK, would you like me to approach them to set up meeting to discuss the possibility of us doing wrapper products with them specifically for the Singaporean mass affluent market?
I am wondering if this is a way for us to get around the iFast/Navigator platform conundrum - or if Zurich Life Insurance in Singapore are just going to say, "we're not going to use restricted funds for our wrappers".
What say you? Any thoughts? What kind of arrangements have we had with other life insurance companies in the UK in terms of developing wrapper products on life insurance platforms? I know we did something like that a few years ago but I was not part of that project.
Certainly, if I am going to approach them, I am going to go in saying "you know us in the UK, we've worked with you in the UK" to get my foot in the door. It's just what I do after that ... I need some advice please on what I can present to them. Thanks!"
My boss replies, "Go for it." 3 words. Nothing else. Hello?
Alamak. I'm after advice, not approval. So I am suppose to figure all this out on my own?! Argh. The joys of the working world.
So yeah, I have to deal with this for now and the posts on homophobia and Alvin Wang will be delayed even further. Damn I'd rather be blogging than working but Limpeh has got to get back to work for now...
well, it's better than getting a two letters reply - "ok"
ReplyDeletewhen i was an IT support guy, i learnt two things, from two different groups of people.
ReplyDeletethe management doesn't give a shit how u do it, as long as it's done at an acceptable cost within a stipulated time.
the users don't care how things should be done, as long as they can do it in as few clicks as possible. preferably, they don't have to remember anything or any procedure.
i understand the concerns of the users, i try to make things as painless as possible. they've already got a lot of crap to do. but it's always a balancing act between secure computing and ease of use. u really can't have both (as far as i know).
the management... well, depending on personal levels of integrity (which fluctuates, being human), as well as the time allocated, the work done can be very messy yet appear totally functional (just think software development). generally speaking, such work tends to be time bombs.
cheaper and faster? sure. better? it depends on whose point of view. those views are likely to converge when something finally blows up.
Aiyoh, in the last 24 hrs they threw so many things at me ... and yesterday, I looked at this attachment they sent me on email and I'm like, WOAH so technical, I'm the sales & marketing guy, I'm not the product development guy - how am I suppose to know technical stuff like that? My technical understanding is limited to what I have to explain to the client, but it was just like pages and pages of really cheem technical stuff. That's what happens in a small company, you just have to deal with whatever stuff they throw your way and you cannot siam arrow.
DeleteAnd just this morning I put up my hand and said, "look I really don't understand this," and they were like, "okay sure, just ask T. Forth for help." And I'm like, who? "He's a consultant we use sometimes for product development". And I'm like okay ... you expect me just to google him or what? I had to ask another colleague for his contact details - yikes!
OMG, I actually did talk my way into Zurich Life in S'pore, we're having a conference call on Thursday to talk about how we can work together, Limpeh works his magic again :)
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