Annuity Plans for Recurring Retirement Income

Annuity plans offered by various insurance companies:

http://www.income.com.sg/insurance/Annuity/index.asp
http://www.aia.com.sg/en/individuals/pro..._plan.html
http://www.aviva.com.sg/retirement/for-i...ement.html
http://www.axalife.com.sg/retirement/retire-happy

An alternative approach to provide a regular income stream during retirement.  This could be used to augment (a) payout from CPF Life, (b) dividend income stream from stocks, and (c) coupon payouts from bonds.

Acknowledgment: Information was sourced from a post at ValueBuddies.

Cost of Car Ownership

Here's an interesting website that offers a calculator to compute the cost of owning a car in Singapore: Cost of Car Ownership.

With the price of a Certificate of Entitlement outstripping the base value of a car, it has become one of two major cost of living topic that is a regular conversational piece for taxi drivers. 

The other is of course housing.