First (and only) "Evening with AK and friends" in 2016.

For quite a while now, some readers have been asking me when am I going to have another "Evening with AK and friends"? It has been many moons since the last time we had one.

A thousand apologies but AK has been lazy this year, amongst other things.

OK, finally, there will be an "Evening with AK and friends" in July. Yes, that's next month. 

Depending on the response, it could be the only session this year or we might have another one. 

Actually, I hope that it is the only session we will run this year.

Yes, AK is lazy.

Bad AK! Bad AK!

Here are the details:

Date: 

15 July 2016 (Friday).

Time: 

7.00 pm to 9.45 pm.
Location: 

Lifelong Learning Institute, Event Hall 1-1.

This is next to Paya Lebar Square and the nearest MRT station is Paya Lebar. (Duh...)

My good friend, Kenji Tay, from The Fifth Person is helping me to organise this event and I am very lucky to have Victor Chng and Rusmin Ang join me on the panel. Some of you might know these two very intelligent young men who are brilliant investors too.

For those of you who are not familiar with how "Evening with AK and friends" operates, it is basically a gossip question and answer session. 

Fun and laughter with a bit of sharing thrown in? 

Yes, in that order. 

What? You think attending "Evening with AK and friends" will make you a successful investor?

Best to ask those who attended before.

If you still want to come to the event, tickets are priced at $28.00 each. Get your tickets: HERE.

Seats are limited. So, fastest fingers first.
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UPDATED ON 
4 JUNE 16 (11.30 PM).

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I have received requests from some readers for more tickets to be released. Unfortunately, we have already exceeded the room's "official" max capacity.

So, in the weeks leading up to the event, those who bought tickets but are unable to go might want to post a note here. There will be some appreciative buyers. 

Related post:

Evening with AK and friends: Photos.

Reader is upset to have missed the boat.

This is an email from a reader:
Hi AK,

I had not been checking the news on Saizen reits. But i had been following the price.

I am disappointed to hear that it has completed their transfer of assets to Triangle TMKback in March 2016.

Just wanted to share my disappointment with you, as you know i am accumulating my funds in hope that i could start buying SAIZEN Reits.

Now i felt completely demotivated.

Is that why its at 0.09cents? Excuse my ignorance.

Regards,
B

Others might have missed the Saizen REIT boat but for different reasons.

They missed it because it is Japanese. Many were fearful because they heard from people that Japan is going the way of the Dodo. Well, it easy to believe that. 

Japan has been suffering from deflation for 20 years and housing prices are so depressed that a studio apartment in Tokyo is way cheaper than one in Singapore's CBD by a big margin.


Well, I am not going to tell B or anyone if they should buy or sell anything. I always say that my blog is a place where I come to talk to myself but it just happens that there are people listening in. Ahem...

All of us want to make money from Mr. Market. No one wants to lose money.

It has been said that the fear of losing money is a much stronger emotion than the feeling of greed to make more money. 

That is easy to understand because we want to protect what we already have in hand.

We don't have any emotional attachment to money that we have yet to make.

Anyway, there are many boats out there and there will be another boat we can board.

Don't be upset if we have missed a boat.

"Money not made is not the same as money lost."

Related posts:
1. Saizen REIT: Why did I buy and would I buy more?
2. Saizen REIT: Offer of $1.172 per unit.