Over 450 people joined us last Saturday, 19 Aug, at InvestX Congress 2017 to come together and learn how to make more profitable investment decisions and become better investors.

The event kick-started at 9AM with Rusmin Ang, co-founder of The Fifth Person, as he talked about how to manage your investment risk and create the ‘perfect portfolio’ to maximise your returns while protecting your downside. He also shared real-life case examples of how companies and even entire industries go be disrupted, and why it’s crucial to revisit a company’s long-term fundamentals to avoid being caught.

The next speaker was Alvin Chow – co-founder of Dr Wealth. He shared how investors can still beat the market by investing in smart beta ETFs. He also talked about how investors can use ‘thematic’ ETFs to gain exposure to promising sectors and industries.

He was then followed by Swiss-Asia fund manager and Heritage ...