Dear VBNF Members and Colleagues:

I hope you all enjoyed the long Canada Day weekend and the beautiful summer weather. VBNF has been working hard to set up our next event to bring you a couple of speakers to enhance your wealth. Thanks to Paul Lim, Our VP who invited a few Korean media that have either came to our last event at the Indonesia Consulate office to report our event. We received excellent reviews from the press as well as from the audience at the events.

I had a follow up meeting with the Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia, the honorable Mr. Bunyan Saptomo. He enjoyed the event and would like to do more functions with VBNF. Thank you very much, Mr. Consul General. We will do more for sure.

VBNF also took advantage of our meeting with the Consul General and interviewed him for more information on the Business and Investment opportunities in Indonesia and posted the videos on our website for those who missed the event. Please visit our Video Service page on the home page to see the videos.

VBNF will do more interviews with VIP’s in the city. Alex had a chance to meet with Steve Miller, President of Oasis Airline. We will arrange some discount for our members who may fly to Hong Kong for business. Please stay tune for the announcement.

Our Next Event

VBNF is proud to host our next business networking event with The Third Wave Learning Company Ltd. and Manulife Investments.

This meeting will be filled with exciting information on a major business and investment opportunity.

The feature presentation for the evening will be on

• Business and Investment Opportunities in the fast growing global Education Industry - The Second Largest Industry worldwide. The Third Wave Learning Company Ltd. Details
• IncomePlus mutual fund by Manulife Investments.

The Third Wave Learning Company Ltd.

• This exciting company focuses on online delivery of education, where the emphasis is on learning effectiveness. It is taking learning to the new frontier of internet and wireless delivery of knowledge.
• The emphasis is not only on knowledge but on learning effectiveness. Courses are interactive and involve multi-media presentations with live teacher and student communication worldwide.
•  The initial offerings include the three most popular languages in the world—Mandarin Chinese, ESL English and Spanish. Classes will be 8-10 students and teacher on line.
• Career courses including IT Certification, Hotel Management and Tourism, Nursing Administration and Home Care will also be part of these offerings.
• We have developed a relationship with a faculty group at SFU’s MBA program who will be providing business training programs for the corporate and government markets worldwide.
• The Second Business Division for the company will be outsourcing Education Content to schools, corporations and governments worldwide. We will provide them with customized education content, our multi-media online learning Centre (private labeled) and highly effective learning technologies.
• Additionally, we are currently in discussion to get an online education television channel for our course offerings in Asia.
• The target markets in Asia are China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam  and Philippines In Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Featuring keynote speaker: David F. Roth, PH.D. CEO and Director, The Third Wave Learning Company.
 Dr. Roth has spent some 20 years teaching in Universities in North America, including University of California, Berkeley, Wisconsin, The Ohio State University, Purdue University, Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia.

  He has served as Consultant to Presidents in the Philippines, to a Prime Minister and various Ministers in Malaysia and has done extensive work in China with the government and private sectors.

 Since 2001 he has been involved in online education and this company is the product of this work.

The IncomePlus Solution

• The first Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB) product in Canada, GIF Select featuring IncomePlus:
• Protects your principal
  IncomePlus guarantees you'll never lose your original investment.
• Provides the ability to earn a bonus

If you're at least 10 years from retirement, you can earn a 5% guarantee bonus for each year you don't make withdrawals… which could add up to at least an extra 50% of your original investment.

• Locks in market gains
  Every three years we automatically lock in market gains and guarantee bonuses so your guaranteed savings and guaranteed retirement income can actually increase over time to help offset the effects of inflation.

Featuring Speaker
To be announced.

Coming Events

Yours truly,

Alex Au-Yeung
President, Vancouver Business Network Forum (VBNF)