So, the biggest item on my plate is the upcoming talk I'll be giving for SIAS on small and mid-cap companies. In hindsight, creating slides for this one-hour lecture is harder than I thought because I have to distil all my ideas on small-cap investing into a set of slides. And this goes beyond what I ordinarily do for my investment courses.
I'm not even sure whether doing this might be the beginning of a new course with Dr Wealth, but there's plenty of new material to incorporate into my greater course slides.
You can access the link here to register for it: https://portal.sias.org.sg/Event/EventDetails?Id=f4c2b063-390d-f111-8406-000d3aa337f8&EventName=Unlocking_Opportunities_in_Small-Mid_Cap_SGX_Stocks
The second item on my plate is that, thanks to a blog reader, I have been introduced to the IT faculty at the Polytechnic where I teach, which might see me conduct some technical courses in addition to the law courses I currently teach in the evenings. For one thing, I'm not going to turn away CPF money, which I still want to accumulate after 13 years out of conventional employment, but the idea of someone teaching hardcore analytics and data science courses alongside law modules is not something I want to miss out on in my resume.
The price of being selected is also high, as I have to teach myself at least two software packages that I'm unfamiliar with. It seems that my days of avoiding Power BI in favour of hardcore coding in Python might be finally over.
And of course, I have to prepare for Batch 41 of the Early Retirement Masterclass, in end-March, which will launch a Markdown skills file for students to analyse local stocks.
As I'm still working on slides and prepping for workshops, I haven't had time to digest geopolitics, so I don't have any insight into what will happen in the markets tomorrow. But I do know that my All-Weather Portfolio Masterclass students should be happy since we've been into defence stocks and commodities for the past 6 months or so.
Maybe if I can complete my slides for SIAS, I might go that new Spa in Perrenial Business City....
