• What is land banking?
• What makes it profitable for investors today?
• What are some considerations?
• What are some real examples of land banking investments and returns?

Good, Bad, and Ugly Investments – Making High Returns While Avoiding Bubbles and Scams

Investors sometimes are blinded by greed, or simply by ignorance. This presentation looks at realistic expectations of returns in various asset classes and points out where investors can go wrong in practice due to exorbitant fees, unlikely future returns or one-sided investments.

• The big picture of investing
• How to increase your power to purchase
• How OilPods’ investment provides a sound balance to your portfolio

Unleashing the Power of Online Trading for Exceptional Returns

• Stock selection: where to look, screening for stocks that will outperform
• Valuation: indicators for undervalued/overvalued stock
• Timing: entry & exit signals
• Risk: managing risk, diversifying risk away, additional factors present in volatile markets, risk-reward ratio, knowing when to cut your losses
• Returns: cashing in - art or science? Money management, protecting the bottom line
• Behavioural psychology: common mistakes made by the private investor, how to avoid trading pitfalls, adding a professional element to trading

KEYNOTE

Alpesh B. Patel
Managing Director
Agile Partners Asset Management Ltd.

Tax Planning for Investors Purchasing Property in Thailand

• Tax considerations for offshore property investors
• Taxation of property investment under Thailand’s tax treaties
• A review of real property gains tax in Thailand

Managing Foreign Exchange Volatility and Risks Associated with International Payments.

• Update of currency performances in the region's markets
• What are the risks associated with foreign exchange
• How do you overcome and mange foreign exchange uncertainty
• How to effectively manage foreign exchange to save costs for property buyers and investor

Luxury Residential Living – Should you Invest in Singapore or anywhere else?

• Comparsion of the prices of luxury high-end residential properties in Singapore and other key cities around the world
• What differentiates Singaporean luxury market compared to other regions?
• For the discerning investor where should you invest in?
• Which market could provide you with the highest return on investment?

KEYNOTE

Swee Yong Ku
Director - Marketing & Business Development
Savills Singapore

Wine – An Alternative Investment

• What is Wine Investment?
• Why invest in wine?
• How do you invest in wine?

Alternative Investments for the Novice

• Take a tour through the jungle also know as alternative investments.
• Anton will give a useful insight into some of the more lucrative forms of alternative investments and he will uncover the value associated with some of these investments.

Demographics, Demand and a Little Design

• How demographics are changing the fundamentals of the Australian property industry forever
• How we can track where the greatest demand for Australian property is going to be in the future
• Why design is so critical to your property investment decisions

Structured Warrants Demystified

• Why Buy Structured Warrants?
• How does warrant issuers make money?

The Australian Tax System, the Property Investors Best Friend

• Discover the unique tax advantages
• How to ensure your Australian Property investments can remain completely tax free
• Create the opportunity for a tax free life in Australia

Legal Advise for Foreigners Buying Malaysian Property

• Latest updates on legal rights for foreigners buying Malaysian property

The World’s New Profit Engine: Five Shares for the Next Five Years

Find out the names of five top Asian companies that will profit the most from the single biggest economic trend of the next ten years: the rise of the consumer.

As indebted American consumers run out of gas, economies all over Asia are shifting toward more consumption. As years of careful, pent up saving are unleashed, investors are presented with once-in-generation growth opportunities for an elite cadre of local firms traded on local stock markets. Find out what these stocks are and the best reasons you should own them in 2007.

Also, discover why Australia now finds its Asian trading partners more valuable than any other in the world, including America. Which Australian firms will play a key role in Asia’s energy and infrastructure future? And which Aussie blue-chips belong in your global resource portfolio.

Finally, can America still compete? The answer is “yes!” But not at everything, and not at the industries it used to dominate. You’ll hear an overview of America’s strategic economic strengths, and what stocks will continue to prosper (hint, think drugs and big pharmaceuticals.)

KEYNOTE

Dan Denning
Managing Editor
Port Phillip Publishing

UK Property Market

• UK offerings beyond property - the big picture
• Review of UK property markets
• Identifying growth sectors and high potential investment property

Achieve Maximum Gains Through Smart Asset Allocation

• What is asset allocation and why it is important and how does it determine investment success
• Balancing portfolios and asset class for optimum return and lower volatility by understanding how uncorrelated assets respond differently to market events
• Understanding different asset classes’ performance in correlation to market cycles

Malaysia My Second Home Programme – an Attractive
Avenue for Private Individuals Looking Beyond Profit

• The MM2H Programme and its benefits
• Conditions and requirements of the programme
• The application process
• Various classes of assets available in Malaysia, their current rate of returns and general risk profile

Reasons to be Excited about Unit Trust

• Update of market performances in the region’s markets
• Overview on the regional markets, and where the opportunities lie
• Why unit trusts as an investment option to invest in the region

Unwary Australian Property Investors Should Look Out For

• Foreign Investment Review Board Rules and effect of removal on restrictions to purchase residential property
• Off the Plan" property purchases
• Pathways to Permanent Residence
• Updates on Citizenship changes

Unleashing the Power of Online Trading for Exceptional Returns

• Stock selection: where to look, screening for stocks that will outperform
• Valuation: indicators for undervalued/overvalued stock
• Timing: entry & exit signals
• Risk: managing risk, diversifying risk away, additional factors present in volatile markets, risk-reward ratio, knowing when to cut your losses
• Returns: cashing in - art or science? Money management, protecting the bottom line
• Behavioural psychology: common mistakes made by the private investor, how to avoid trading pitfalls, adding a professional element to trading

KEYNOTE

Alpesh B. Patel
Managing Director
Agile Partners Asset Management Ltd.

Guide to Strategic Land Investments in the UK

• Returns of up to 400% or even more
• Guidance and steps to ensure a safe and sound investment in the UK

Investors Guide to Making Money in Phuket’s Growing Property Market  

• Investors guide to making money in Phuket
• Phuket: Why return will be even better over the next 5 to 10 years?
• How to get a hassle free investment in Phuket?
• Phuket, the best profits are yet to come
• Five strategies for making money in Phuket
• Investing in projects

How to Safely Purchase Real Estate Assets in Thailand

• Ways to purchase property in Thailand that protect foreigners’ rights
• How can foreigners legally and safely purchase real estate in Thailand?

Low correlation of stock markets and land investments....Myth or Reality?

• Analysing stock market data versus land investments
• Interpretation of data result for maximum return on investment

Impact of Economic Growth and Government Policies on the Development and Changing Trends in Thailand’s Property Market

• Overview of the current situation in real estate market in Phuket
• Supply and demand – Limitations and opportunities
• Real estate consulting & counselling – value & necessity

FINANCING THAILAND PROPERTIES INVESTMENT

• Means to financing property purchases for foreigners

Commodity and Stock Markets Outlook

• Short and long term outlook for COMEX Gold Future, COMEX Silver Future, NYMEX Crude Oil Future and Malaysia Palm Oil Future.
• Investment strategy
• Entrance and exit level
• Stop loss level

• Short and long term outlook on S&P, Dow Industrial, NIKKEI 225, and Straits Time Index
• Investment strategy
• Entrance and exit level
• Stop loss level

Singapore Real Estate Opportunities – Where do we go from here for the man on the street?

• Are we expensive? Or is this only the beginning?
• The need for diversification and rationalization of portfolios
• Where are the opportunities?
• Alternative real estate segments – Conservation shop houses and commercial
• The incentives and pitfalls of cross border real estate opportunities for the retail investor

Singapore’s Casino Development and its Impact on Property Prices

• How the casino developments will impact and shape property prices in Singapore
• The creation of new entertainment precinct in Singapore
• A catalyst for high-end dining and retail

KEYNOTE

Swee Yong Ku
Director - Marketing & Business Development
Savills Singapore

Demographics, Demand and a Little Design

• How demographics are changing the fundamentals of the Australian property industry forever
• How we can track where the greatest demand for Australian property is going to be in the future
• Why design is so critical to your property investment decisions

The Australian Tax System, the Property Investors Best Friend

• Discover the unique tax advantages
• How to ensure your Australian Property investments can remain completely tax free
• Create the opportunity for a tax free life in Australia

Singapore Residential Market Tempo Towards the Integrated Resort Era

• The rise of resort development
• Defining luxury resort, not all resorts are the same
• How to spot a good resort investment
• Residential investment sales
• Government policies