Why We Started CareCompare
After years of working with families, one pattern kept surfacing: the strongest driver behind financial planning isn't wealth. It's care.
The same three questions came up again and again, and almost nobody was answering them in plain terms for Singapore.
How do I make sure my child is looked after if I'm no longer around?
How do we keep up the same level of care my loved one gets today?
What happens when the primary caregiver can no longer manage?
In helping families through those transitions we kept hitting the same gap: very few accessible, plain-language resources on care-centric planning in Singapore, and very little that started from what a family actually needs. We built CareCompare to close that gap.
Where CareCompare stops, and an adviser starts
Everything before you talk to anyone.
- Publish the real numbersTherapy rates, assessment fees, nursing home costs and CareShield payouts, in plain figures, sourced and dated.
- Explain what's actually relevantWhich needs tend to come up with autism, additional needs and eldercare, where cover applies to them, and where it doesn't. Explanation, not recommendation.
- Make the introductionWhen you want to talk to someone, we introduce you to a licensed financial adviser. The adviser's firm may pay CareCompare a referral fee if you become a client.
If and when you want to go further than the numbers.
- Work out what your family's care actually costs now, and in twenty years
- Look at who carries that cost if you can't, and for how long
- Show you where your current arrangements fall short of that need
- Revisit it as your child grows and your circumstances change
CareCompare is not licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to provide financial advice. We give you the numbers, and we introduce you to a licensed financial adviser.
A referral fee may be paid to us
When you ask to be connected, we pass your details to a licensed financial adviser. CareCompare is an introducer for its partner advisory firms (currently Phillip Securities Pte Ltd) and may receive a referral fee if you become a client. CareCompare introduces and does not give financial advice.
That's worth stating plainly, because it shapes what we are. We have an incentive to introduce you to an adviser. So the guides have to stand on their own whether or not you ever take the introduction. That's why our content includes the cases where cover doesn't help, not only the ones where it does, and why we don't rank anything by commission.
We are not licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to provide financial advice, and nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy any product.
Start with the numbers
Read what care actually costs in Singapore before you talk to anyone.