In this highly sought-after interactive workshop for new investors, participants will learn how money is created. They will also get to learn how to read monetary policies statements issued by central banks around the world. At the end of this workshop, participants will learn how influencing such money supply affects the economy and stock prices. This workshop will also include a segment on investment market outlook.

Date: 12 May 2012
Time: 3pm – 530 pm (No pre-registration required)
Venue: NUSS Guildhouse Suntec City
Fee: Free for members and one guest. Additional guests will be at $5/person.

Agenda:

1. How money is created and destroyed?
2. An example of how money is created is demonstrated.
3. Why money supply has an influence over the economy?
4. What are the relationships between investment returns and the state of economy?
5. Hands-on session: You are a central bank and is tasked to create money.  Using a template worksheet, how will you do it?
6. Examples of monetary policy statements.
7. Economic/investment outlook.
8. Q&A

Remarks:

1. Bring along a calculator. A simple calculator that can add, subtract, multiply and divide will do. It is not necessary to have a financial calculator.
2. There is a Q&A session which participants are free to ask the trainer any questions relevant to the subject matter. However, they should not ask questions pertaining to their own personal financial situation because of the non-confidentiality nature of the workshop.

About the speaker:

Wilfred Ling is a CFA charter holder and is a Chartered Financial Consultant®. Moreover, he is an ISO 22222 (SCI) certified person. The ISO 22222 certification means that he has been assessed by independent third party in relation to his financial planning process, ethics, competency, experience and thus adheres to the International Standard for financial planning.

As a fee-based professional financial planning practitioner, he has written many comprehensive financial plans for fee-paying clients. His clients seek his advice on a wide range of financial planning issues such as credit management, insurance, investments, retirement planning, tax planning and estate planning.

Wilfred Ling is the FA Associate Director with PromiseLand Independent Pte Ltd, which is licensed by Monetary Authority of Singapore to provide advice on insurance and collective investment schemes. He leads the Ethos Wealth Planners which is a group of advisers in PromiseLand.

He is also a member of the CFA Institute, CFA Singapore and Association of Financial Advisers (Singapore).

His maintains a personal website: http://www.wilfredling.com

It is February and love is in the air!

Thinking of velvety chocolate oozing out of warm moist chocolate cake? It is heavenly! How about making your very own chocolate molten cake to impress your family and loved one? Here is a your chance to learn how. Details are as follow:

Topic: Chocolate Molten Cake Making Workshop
Date: 25th Feb 2012 (Sat)
Time: 11am (workshop will last about an hour)
Venue: Paisley & Cream (Address: 2 Veerasamy Road Singapore 207305)
Cost: $10 for member, $20 for non-member (payment to be made at the event itself)

Each member can bring up to 2 guests. Children under the age of 12 can share a seat for free with the accompanying adult.

Limited to 15 participants only and each paying participant will be making their own cake. Vacancies are available on a first come, first serve basis. Registration is now closed.

If you sign up but are unable to come, kindly inform us to cancel your booking so that we can give your seat to someone else. We reserve the right to charge the full fee for no-shows who do not cancel as the ingredients would have been bought.

Cynthia Lau - Facilitator

Are you Creative? What are some issues and challenges faced in creativity and innovation? Come, join us for a session on O.P.E.N.™ for Innovation and learn about processes to challenge your mindsets, status quo and assumptions that hinder your creativity.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to outline some of the issues and challenges faced in creativity and innovation as well as explore processes to challenge mindsets, status quo and assumptions more fluently.

Programme highlights include 1) Creative OPENers, 2) Key Aspects on the Nature of Innovation, 3) O.P.E.N™ for Innovation Tools and 4) Questions and Answers about Creativity and Innovation.

Profile of Speaker

Date: 14 January 2012
Time: 3pm – 530 pm (Registration starts at 245pm, session will start at 3pm sharp)
Venue: NUSS Guildhouse Suntec City
Fee: Free for members and one guest. Additional guests will be at $8/person.

There will be a Lo Hei session after the soapbox. Please register on the form provided below so that we know how many sets of Lo Hei to order.

It’s time of the year for our favourite festive season again! “Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright”. Erm…, you get the point.

Besides going to church, shopping, shopping and more shopping, Mensa has an event ready for you – the Mensa Christmas Tea! Details are below:

Date: 17th Dec
Time: 3pm
Venue: NUSS Guildhouse
Price: $5 for members, $20 for non-members (payment to be made at the door)

Please register using the form below for food catering purposes.

Christmas Tea Menu:
Gammon Ham
Log Cake
Roast Potatoes
Mushroom Spaghetti with Cream Sauce
Chicken Wings
Coffee / Tea

Activities
Mensa Certificates Presentation
Games & Activities

If your membership fees are due, you can also make payment at the christmas tea (cash only).

Registration is now closed.

Ever wonder what does your date of birth means to you and how to calculate your root number?

Ever wanted to find out what is your “elements” in your life and which industry is suitable for you?

Ever wonder what does most cancer patient, successful leaders and serial criminals have in their life numbers?

All the mysteries will be unveiled in this session.

Date: 19 November 2011
Time: 3pm – 530 pm (Registration starts at 245pm, session will start at 3pm sharp)
Venue: NUSS Guildhouse Suntec City
Fee: Free for members and one guest. Additional guests will be at $5/person.

In this session, which is conducted in Mandarin, you will learn how to calculate your root number and what kind of industries will be suitable for you as a career choice. And also what most leaders have in common in their life numbers.

Click here for writeup about speaker, Mr Thomas Chiam.

Registration is now closed.