AKLTG’s Fin-Ed Masterclasses Now Onboard Piranha Profits® School
Our latest brand integration move brings you more ways to learn and earn.
Today I announced the integration of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group’s (AKLTG) financial education arm with the Piranha Profits® brand (both owned by me).
Our Wealth Academy™, Wealth Academy Options™ and XSPY Trader™ masterclasses, previously offered by my education company AKLTG, are now exclusively onboard the Piranha Profits® learning eco-system.
This year-long brand integration move is fuelled by my team’s desire to bring you a seamless learning experience.
Our local and overseas students can now easily access the same suite of investing & trading courses, playbooks and masterclasses ─ served by one dedicated team, all in one school.
Why make this move?
For years, my fellow mentors Bang Pham Van, Alson Chew and I have been teaching under two brand entities ─ live classes by AKLTG for our regional students, and online courses by Piranha Profits® for our global audience.
When COVID-19 struck, our live classes went online, and this opened up new options for our students worldwide. Enrollments came flooding in ─ in our most recent masterclass, 50% were overseas students. Yep, people living 12 time zones away were staying up to attend our live classes!
With our students worldwide joining the same learning groups, we saw many mind-opening discussions. Just imagine this ─ you’re a Singaporean looking to buy a US stock. With one message sent, a fellow investor living in the US can give you on-the-ground insight on that company and its products. And vice versa.
Such is the power of our global community, and it helped us recognize that learning knows no borders.
We decided to integrate our fin-ed offerings within one school and make them available worldwide. By combining resources and streamlining our enrollment process, we hope to enrich your learning experience with us. Now you have more choices to learn in the best way that suits you, and the chance to tap into our global network of investment and trade ideas.
Explore the new Piranha Profits®
Piranha Profits’® flagship offerings are designed for investors & traders with different needs.
I like this delicious analogy: When you join our culinary school, you can watch our cooking tutorials at home, have our master chef cook for you, or have him demonstrate the recipe live before your eyes. Whichever way you prefer to learn, we have powerful solutions for you.
From investing & trading courses, playbooks to masterclasses, we give you a progressive learning path to level up your financial skills. Start from anywhere in our eco-system and level up your profits as you explore more ways to learn and earn with us.
On-Demand Courses
Built for self-paced learning, this series of pre-recorded video lessons lets you pick up investing & trading in the comfort of your home. Choose from a range of topics including stock investing, stock trading, forex, options, REITs and cryptocurrency.
Subscription Playbooks
Created for busy professionals who want to spend less time monitoring charts. Subscribe to our premium reports and join a private group where Bang Pham Van and I share our best investment and trade ideas with you every month.
Live Masterclasses
Designed for investors & traders who want to enjoy a top-tier learning experience. Speed up your learning curve with live mentorship, small group coaching, hands-on application and live Q&A. Learn trademark strategies from 7-figure trading mentors in these interactive online classes.
Privileges for existing students
Existing Piranha Profits® course students can now easily upgrade to a live masterclass experience at a privilege rate. You can be living on the other side of the globe and still enjoy live mentorship and interaction with your favorite mentors.
AKLTG graduates are now recognized as Piranha Profits® students and can enjoy privilege rates on all Piranha Profits® offerings. By joining the international chat groups that come with our on-demand courses and playbooks, you can discuss trade ideas with a greater community and gain new insights from global lenses.
For more info, please reach us at support@piranhaprofits.com.
About Piranha Profits® online school
Piranha Profits® is one of the world’s leading online schools for investors and traders. Launched in 2017, we have since empowered the financial lives of over 20,000 students across 124 countries.
Our unique curriculum features several trademark strategies including Value Momentum Investing™, SNIPEX™, Price Action Manipulation™ and more.
The Piranha Profits® education team is led by award-winning financial mentor Adam Khoo, alongside 7-figure trading mentors Bang Pham Van and Alson Chew.
Piranha Profits® is a financial education brand owned by Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group.
Impeccable Rapport: How AKLTG’s Co-founders Built a Successful Company
This interview article was first published in Lianhe Zaobao on 05 March 2020.
Below is a translated version:
17 years ago, Patrick Cheo and Adam Khoo joined hands to build Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG), a local education & training organisation. From a humble 2-man company, the Group has transformed into a full-fledged enterprise with over 100 staff strength and more than 20 million annual revenue.
Patrick Cheo revealed, “Our greatest success is probably that ever since Adam and I ventured into this business in our NUS Business School days, we have never quarrelled. We are very clear of our own roles and responsibilities and we do them to our best abilities.”
Indeed, Patrick and Adam take on clearly defined responsibilities in this business, balancing between “internal” and “external” roles. Patrick oversees the company’s finance, human resource, sales and operations, and focuses on regional business expansion in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. On the flipside, Adam serves as the company’s namesake and icon, promoting the brand through seminars, books and videos.
To Patrick, delivering an inspirational learning experience is key to transforming the public’s perception towards “motivational speakers”. “Our programmes cover investing and trading strategies, study skills and personal development strategies. These topics can be taught in a theoretical or boring manner, but we choose to teach in a way that touches people’s heart and inspire our participants to take action.”
“As digitalization becomes integral to everybody’s lives, learning preferences are rapidly evolving,” says Patrick. AKLTG believes in lifelong learning and offers a suite of online courses to cater to these shifting needs.
In 2019, AKLTG achieved the Enterprise 50 (E50) Award. Winning the prestigious award for the first time has boosted Patrick’s confidence in forging the company’s future. “Looking back on our business journey, our secret to success has always been ‘doing whatever it takes’,” he says.
He also shared his belief in prioritising the welfare of his employees. “There were periods when we had a cash crunch, but Adam and I were clear that the staff must be paid on time even if it meant us taking on personal loans. This has helped us to retain a lot of capable and loyal staff, many whom have been with us for over 10 years and helped us to grow from strength to strength each year.”
According to Patrick, one of his main motivations for overseas expansion is to challenge his employees and give them opportunities to explore and grow with the company. “Expansion also allows the company to have economies of scale and helps to increase overall profitability.”
How a “Nobody from Singapore” Became YouTube’s Most Watched Investment Mentor
Enterprise 50 Award winner, Adam Khoo,
shares his lessons on business, education and life.
When he first shared his idea of teaching financial lessons to a worldwide audience on YouTube, his friends chuckled. “No one is going to listen to an Asian guy talk about the U.S. markets,” they quipped.
Fast-forward to 2019, Adam Khoo is one of YouTube’s most-watched investment mentors with over 16 million views on his videos. His online trading school, Piranha Profits™, caters to students from 122 countries.
“What made you decide to start your YouTube channel?”
I was enjoying great success teaching my stock investing live programme Wealth Academy™ in Southeast Asia. As I approached my 40th birthday, I wanted to make the most of my time and help more people achieve their financial dreams. I set a goal of touching one million lives worldwide and YouTube’s global reach allows me to do just that.
People think I’m crazy for sharing so much great content for free online when other “gurus” charge high fees for the same knowledge. To me it’s all about delivering value. I’ve received thank-you messages from as far as Kenya and Canada. When I see how my video lessons have transformed people’s financial destiny, it becomes all worthwhile.
“What is your advice to businesses who are trying to grow their sales and following?”
When you give real value, when you’re sincere about helping people, they will come to you. My online trading school is a testament to that. Every day I have loads of people wanting to enrol for my courses after watching my YouTube videos.
Businesses need to understand that the old model of placing pushy ads doesn’t work so well anymore. New-age customers want to make informed buying decisions. They want to be educated and entertained. Content is king.
“Your company, Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group, just won the Enterprise 50 Award. What is the secret to your business success?”
Two things: Innovation and people.
The ability to innovate and adapt to changes has kept my business thriving for the past 17 years.
My company is a pioneer in running educational seminars in Singapore — we reach over 100,000 people a year through our live trainings, school-based programmes, tuition classes and business coaching. But nowadays, more people prefer to learn online through videos and apps. So my team created new programmes to meet their learning needs.
For example, my school training arm makes use of gamification and video learning extensively in our workshops and this has received a roaring response from students.
The other key ingredient is my amazing team.
We would never have made it this far without the talent and hard work of our teammates. To build a great company, you must first take care of your people.
We invest heavily in our people. Every employee is given a generous learning budget to enrol in professional courses of their choice. As part of our family culture, we give a bonus to every employee who gets married or has a baby during their tenure with us.
My business partner, Patrick Cheo, regularly cooks delicacies like wagyu beef and crab beehoon for our staff and all these little gestures of appreciation raise our people’s morale.
“There are people who question the effectiveness of the courses you teach. What are your thoughts on this?”
I don’t blame them; it’s human nature to be doubtful about things you’re unfamiliar with. I choose to focus my energy on helping people who believe in what I have to offer. I just keep going and let my students’ results do the talking.
When I started my YouTube channel 3 years ago, no one believed that a nobody from Singapore could attract the viewership of the Western world.
Today, more than 70% of my viewers are from the U.S. and Europe and my videos are ranked at the top globally for stock, forex and options trading. Last year, I received the YouTube Silver Creator Award for garnering more than 100,000 subscribers.
So, don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is impossible until you have done it yourself.
(A version of this interview was first published on The Business Times.)