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Free online class · 60 minutes

Growth Vault · Top 1% US stocks

Your savings are in ringgit. The best businesses in the world are not.

A free 60-minute class for Malaysians who want to hold part of their wealth in US dollars and build a portfolio that keeps working in good years and bad.

  • technical charts
  • brokers' reports
  • stock tips
  • buy-sell calls

764 people have already sat through this class.

Why we study Warren Buffett

1965 Invested with Warren Buffett US$1,000
Today Worth about US$48,500,000

Just under 20% a year, compounded, for sixty years. No charting software. He bought good businesses when they were cheap and kept them.

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What you walk out with

Four things you will be able to do without asking anyone.

Read a company the way an owner does

Every US-listed company publishes its own numbers for free. You will learn what to look for in them, and what tells you a business is quietly rotting.

Know when a great company costs too much

A great company bought at the wrong price is still a bad investment. You will see the handful of ratios that answer this, and where the numbers come from.

Filter 6,000 stocks down to a shortlist

More than 6,000 companies trade in the US and most are not worth your time. Ian shares the screening filter he runs so you spend your hours on the ones that matter.

Know what to do when the market falls

Crashes are where most portfolios are destroyed and a few are made. You will see how long-term investors treat a falling market as a shopping list.

The whole class in one table

Two ways to hold a stock. Only one of them compounds.

Buffett has spent sixty years in the left column. Almost everyone else lives in the right one. By the end of the class you will know which column you have been living in, and how to move.

Warren Buffett
The other 99% in the market
01
Treats a stock as a business
Treats it as a lottery ticket
02
Reads annual reports
Reads stock charts
03
Buys when his criteria are met
Buys on a feeling
04
Values the company first
Follows the price on the screen
05
Stays invested for years
Tries to time the market
06
Buys to accumulate
Trades for a quick profit
07
Decides on his own
Waits for a tip or a hot call
08
Owns the top 1% of companies
Owns whatever was trending

None of this is new and none of it is ours. Investors have written it down and copied it for decades. That is exactly why it can be taught, and why you can pick it up too.

The live case study

One real position, opened up line by line.

In the class, Ian walks you through a stock KC Lau actually bought, held, sold, and then bought back. You see the business model he checked, the numbers he pulled, the price he paid, and the reasoning at every step, including the part where he sold the whole thing.

Watch it once and you have a template you can run on any company yourself.

Position file · opened in class

Company
Revealed during the class
First buy
2013 · US$120 to US$130 a share
Added
2016 to 2017 · US$150 to US$170
Sold
2018 · US$200The proceeds bought a house in the US.
Bought back
2020 · US$170 to US$180The price had fallen. The business had not.
Latest close
US$499.62 19 Aug 2026

Roughly 2.8 to 2.9 times his capital since 2020

What he would change

KC's biggest regret has nothing to do with stock picking.

He found value investing in his early thirties. Through his twenties he traded instead, and he lost money doing it.

He has run the numbers on those missing years. Had he started in his early twenties and simply held on, he puts it at close to ten times his capital over twenty-five years.

The stock was there the whole time. The knowledge was not.

You are earlier than he was.

Before you book a seat

We would rather you skip this than sit through the wrong class.

Come along if you want to

  • Hold part of your wealth in US dollars instead of one currency
  • Build and manage your own portfolio without paying anyone a yearly fee to do it
  • Judge a company yourself, from what the company itself publishes
  • Hold good businesses for years and let them compound
  • Learn a skill you keep for the rest of your life

Give it a miss if you want

  • A stock at $1 today that you can sell at $2 next month
  • Trade alerts, target prices or buy-sell recommendations
  • Technical analysis and charting software
  • Someone to invest the money for you. Ian and KC are educators, not licensed fund managers
  • Someone to cover your losses. Your profits are yours and your losses are yours
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Takes about 30 seconds

Who is teaching

Two investors who buy what they teach.

You are handing an hour to these two, so here is who they are.

Ian Tai

Ian Tai

Co-founder, Growth Vault

Ian started out as a dividend investor on Bursa with small money and plenty of mistakes. He moved on to Singapore and built a six-figure portfolio that pays him five figures in dividends each year.

He has been reading annual reports for more than ten years and still does it today. He has written two books, one on dividend investing and one on the deals that built Warren Buffett's empire. He teaches the class.

Dividend Vault, a book by Ian Tai Buffett's Biggest Deals, a book by Ian Tai

Author, Dividend Vault and Buffett's Biggest Deals

KC Lau

KC Lau

Co-founder, Growth Vault

KC has built a seven-figure US dollar portfolio holding companies like Apple, Alphabet and Costco. The position you will walk through in the class is one of his.

He has been teaching personal finance to Malaysians for close to two decades and has written more than a dozen books on money.

Money Smart Money Smart, Chinese edition Bijak Wang Millionaire Top Money Tips

Five of his dozen-plus books on money

Two people who learned this way with KC, in his Premium Webinar Membership.

"I learnt how to read financial reports. The contents provided has been really good. Seeing KCLau walks the talk, makes me work hard for it."

Ong Sze Jiet

Geologist, Kota Kinabalu · PWM member

"I barely make ends meet prior to joining PWM. I spent the remaining few hundreds ringgit I have to sign up in the hope to increase my financial literacy. Since then, I had bought my first stock and received dividends."

Thomas Khoo

Admin manager · PWM member

Ian and KC have been coaching Malaysian and Singaporean investors to run their own portfolios since 2020, when they started Dividend Vault together.

When it runs

Pick a time you can sit through from start to finish.

The case study is built step by step. Dropping in halfway means the last part will not make much sense.

Just in time Starting shortly --:--
Every day Evening session 8:00 PM
Every Saturday Weekend morning 10:00 AM
Every Sunday Weekend afternoon 2:00 PM

Just-in-time sessions start on the hour and at 15, 30 and 45 past. The registration form shows every time in your own time zone.

  • It is free. Nothing to pay, no card needed.
  • Online, about 60 minutes. Watch on a laptop or a phone. Nothing to install.
  • Your link arrives by email straight away. Check your promotions or spam folder if it is not in your inbox within a few minutes.
  • We remind you before it starts. One reminder the day before and one shortly before your session opens, so it does not slip past you.
  • No experience needed. If you have never bought a US stock, you are exactly who this was built for.
  • You do not need money invested to attend. The class is about the skill. You can put it to work whenever you are ready.

Last thing

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Sixty minutes today against a skill you keep for the next thirty years. That is the whole trade.

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