IPP's VISION

 

To be the premier financial planning advisory company in Singapore and Asia Pacific, providing our clients excellent financial advice and services.

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EAG's VISION

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To become the very BEST in the world.  Every single one of our Adviser Reps strive, every day, towards the pursuit of excellence.  Always learning, always improving.  The Company, the Advisory Group and each individual team member work together and are fully aligned as stakeholders to ensure the very highest standards of both initial and ongoing advice. We want to ensure that all of our clients have a positive experience and successful (and enjoyable!) financial planning journey with us.  

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IPP is a licensed financial advisory company serving high net worth and high-income top executives, professionals and business owners/entrepreneurs in Singapore and the Southeast Asian region in the areas of Estate Planning, Life and Health Insurance Economic Life Planning, Key Owner/Executive Life Insurance and Business Continuation Planning, Comprehensive Financial and Investment Planning and other Financial Services.

 

 

Headquartered in Singapore, with an associate office in Hong Kong, the organisation upholds high standards of professionalism through its nearly 600 financial adviser representatives (FAR) and staff – specialists in investments, life and health insurance, retirement planning, estate and legacy planning, business continuation planning, keyowner/executive insurance, employee benefit planning, global funds, alternative investments, global property funds, health insurance and long-term care and comprehensive financial planning.

IPP has developed proven processes, systems and financial planning methodologies to advise and counsel clients on planning their financial future to achieve financial independence as well as lifetime financial security and success.

 

 

OUR HISTORY

 

As Singapore’s first comprehensive financial planning company

 

 

IPP was founded as a financial advisory company in 1983 by Wee Tiong Howe, at the time a leading distribution manager of a multinational insurance company.

 

Staffed with the most professionally and academically qualified financial planning and life insurance professional advisers in Singapore and the region, IPP quickly grew to become a renowned and trusted financial advisory.

 

In 1986, the Securities Industry Act was introduced in Singapore. Two years later, IPP gained its Investment Adviser License, becoming one of the first non-bank licensed investment advisers. Following the introduction in 2002 of the Financial Advisers Act (FAA) to provide a legal framework for an integrated license for advisory services in life insurance and securities, the IPP businesses were integrated into a complete financial planning business.

 

IPP quickly grew to become one of the leading financial advisory businesses in Singapore and the region. In 2006, IPP acquired the necessary dealing and advisory licenses to deal in securities and life insurance with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

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The Expat Advisory Group (EAG) was created in 2008 to serve the expatriate community as well as the more international Singaporean and ‘Global Citizens’.  With a more specialist set of expertise in internationally portable and multi-jurisdictional financial services, EAG became a specialist advisory group within IPP’s solid institutional foundations.  

 

 

OUR FOUNDERS

 

Ian J. Pryor 

 

A British expatriate and Singapore Permanent Resident who has been in Singapore since 2006, Ian truly personifies the culture of EAG. He is a Partner of IPPFA, Head of EAG, and is also a shareholder and Director of IPP Financial Services Holdings.

 

Ian brings to the table 2 decades of industry experience.  Prior to moving to Singapore he was based in London, where he gained expertise in European Cash Management, Institutional Equity Sales and Retail Advisory Stock Broking. As testament of his proficiency, he is a much sought-after speaker, having conducted numerous talks and seminars.

 

Out of his suit he is a social golfer, cyclist and tennis enthusiast and likes the challenge of endurance sports having completed a number of marathons and a 50km trail run. His love for the outdoors and testing his personal boundaries extends to mountains and he has successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro (the world’s tallest freestanding mountain) and Mount Elbrus (the highest point in Europe), amongst others.  He also enjoys travelling, food, wine, cigars and whisky, as well as having a keen interest in horology as an avid watch collector.  At home, he is currently family planning with his wife, Elena and loves long walks with his beagle, Luna. 

 

Ian holds an Economics degree and is an Associate Financial Consultant of the Insurance and Financial Practitioners Association Singapore and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (UK).  He took advantage of some down time during COVID-19 to further his studies online, and in 2019 attained the Certificate in Asset Management issued by Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. 

 

Wee Tiong Howe​

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Became the first professionally accredited financial planning professional in the region, being conferred the prestigious Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designations from the American College of Financial Services, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1983 and 1985 respectively.  He is still an active executive and is the current Chairman of IPP’s Board of Directors.