Bigscribe mega event of the year: Investors Exchange 2017

Bigscribe is having a mega event, called Investors Exchange 2017, this July. Those who know Bigscribe and had attended their value for money talk would know that everyone takes away something of value from attending the talk, so this mega event is no difference. Here's the line up of the speakers and their topics:

Teh Hooi Ling - Strategies for successful equities investing

She is a former SPH journalist and author of the "Show me the Money" series. She has her own fund now, called Inclusif Value Fund. I read her books and loved her articles on straits times, and found her to be sensible and always a delight to read.

Xeo Lye - Identify market trends the George Soros way (writes on Xeolyenomics blog)

I know him as a great runner and the designer and founder of the financial/economics game Wongamania. He is a macro person and has very deep knowledge of economics and how to apply it to investing on an individual level.

Vina Ip - 7 Deadly sins of Singapore property buyers (writes on Propertysoul blog)

If you want to find out about properties, she is the default blog to go to. She has many years of experience and offers great advice on everything related to property. Can't go too wrong if you are interested to learn more about property.

Joel Sim - Master your mind, master the market (writes on mrfinancesavvy blog)

I know him as a equities broker and is a great trader. He will share with you about his craft as a professional trader and what are the things we should look out for. His years of experience in his field makes him someone that I will listen to.

Christopher Ng - 50 Shades of dividends investing (writes on Tree of prosperity blog)

What a sexy titillating title. He is very much himself over here and he shares actual experience with his status as a financial free man. Chris always do his research and shares it with folks who attends his talks. It can be controversial and unconventional, but I guarantee it will definitely set you thinking.

Kenny Loh - How to use the 3 musketeers of REITS to find strong REITS (writes on MystocksInvesting blog)

I read his blog for so many years now, and he runs a REIT investing course for a while. Here, he will share with you how to avoid common mistakes that REITS investors make and introduce a very simple and free tool to cut down your REIT research efforts.

Elvin Liang - The Art of Scuttlebutt (writes on epsilonluxe blog)

Ex-banker, current remisier. I think he is one of the few who applies both FA and TA to his investing. Here, he will share with you about scuttlebutt, a concept first introduced by Philip Fisher. If you want to know how he applies it to investing, you might want to hear what he has to say.


With this kind of line up, I think you don't come to the talk with just a cup of Starbucks. You come here with redbull laced coffee, a pen and notepad to write notes! The details of the event you can get by clicking on the picture below:

The key details are listed here:

Date: 29th July 2017 (Sat)
Time: 1pm to 5pm
Venue: DBS Auditorium, MBFC Tower 3, Level 3
Price: $65 (regular), $49 (early bird fee)

The early bird fee of $49 represents a near 25% discount from the regular price, and it will end in about a week on 8th July. So book your tickets fast. Don't just spend $49 on a good lunch; spend it on some mind food as well, lol

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Kungfu Cats Academy is here!

For those of you who are regular readers, you'll know what I do for a living. I'm a full-time tutor and had been one for the last 10 years (and counting!). I recently set up a new website to showcase the things that I do as a tutor, and it's called Kungfu Cats Academy. I'll like to share it with you :)


One of the main reasons why I wanted to set up a separate site for my career is so that I can blog about different things that interest me. I find the bullythebear is not the right platform for thoughts and reflections about the education industry in general, so I really really like the idea of setting up a different site to talk about such things. The themes in Kungfu Cats will be about motivational issues, life in general as a full time tutor and other stuff about the educational scene in Singapore. This will be a different platform from what I share in Bullythebear, which is mainly about finance, notably personal finance.

Erm...you'll never walk alone?

The other reason is obvious blatant advertising. I take in students through word-of-mouth alone and it'll be good for the long run if I can increase the number of people who knows what I do. Hence, the site will act as a focal point of my efforts to make my services more visible. It's also so much easier to tell people to go to a site rather than to type out some of the faq that I also put in the site. One time effort but reaping rewards the rest of the time - I love such asymmetry in effort and rewards relationship.


I had also set up a Facebook page for the same purpose. Those who are interested to receive articles regarding education/tuition/motivation might find it useful. I leave it to you to decide whether to 'like' it or not :) I think the whole purpose of setting up a site like this is to let it grow organically, so I realised from past experiences that having 10,000 likes is not the same as having one person who really likes it. The statistics doesn't matter one bit in how I'm going to do my job. I'm used to talking alone anyway, and that's how bullythebear begins. I still remembered the time where there's only 3 persons in my cbox - me, myself and I.


Why cats, you may ask? There's a lot of things we can learn from them - notably creativity, curiosity and independence. These traits are what an educated person should be.

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