Dear friends,
I am pleased to announce that my latest book ‘Profit from the Panic’ was officially launched on 20 Jan 2009. Even before the launch, we have had sold hundreds of copies at our pre-launch phase.
‘Profit from the Panic’ was featured on prime time news on Channel News Asia. Check it out here…
We were also very pleased to present the initial royalty cheques to the STRAITS TIMES POCKET MONEY FUND and AIDHA.
As you all already know, 100% of the authors royalties will be donated to these two deserving charities. The ST Pocket Money Fund helps distributes funds to children of low income homes which cannot afford to eat 3 meals a day. AIDHA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of low income migrant women through financial education.
Thank you for all those of you who have shown your support by buying this book.
Sir,I am from malaysia and i think the book is a bit more expensive then ur previous books. any reason for this? Anyway I have been reading ur books and I am very very much impressed sir.Thanks
hii adam..been waiting for this book to come out. I notice every time you had a launch it took about a month before the book reached the shores of Malaysia..
may be you can do a simultaneous launch in Malaysia and Singapore..
Hi, i read part of the book, and am really interested in buying ETFs or index funds of S&P 500. YOu rightly mentioned that brokers here charge a high fee, and advised getting a overseas registration of some sorts. Can you elaborate?
If you buy US stocks or ETFs through a local broker, the commissions will definitely be higher than if you were to directly open a US brokerage account and trade with it
wow you donate the royalties fee? that’s really nice of you Adam, God Bless you.
Thanks, how can one open a US brokerage account? THanks.
By the way, I am a firm believer in index funds or ETFs, and dollar-cost averaging with it, having spread out one’s bets by investing across countries, of course, as you advocate.
Wow thank you for sharing us with all the knowledge to be more than what we could be, I hope your book will be a success.
Hi Mr Khoo, I have read and enjoyed your book “profit from the panic”. I have one question though – on your value stock chapter, regarding the example on United Health Group. It was rated a strong buy, in your book, as it was way below the discounted price.
However, reading through the newly released (2008) annual report of the firm, the firm doesn’t seem to fulfill some of the criteria you’ve mentioned. Does that signal that it’s no longer a strong buy? Or should we negate this new report because many if not all firms were somewhat ravaged by the financial tsunami?
In addition, Warren Buffet has also shaved the number of UNH stocks he has last quarter.
It depends in the criteria that it no longer fulfills. If it is not undervalued anymore, then obviously is does not make it a good investment anymore. There are more than 10,000 stocks in the US market and 500 in the S&P 500 to choose from. If you had the chance to choose anyone of 500 wives/husbands, wouldn’t you choose the one that meets all your criteria?