Our Fellowship Chairman today was PP Paul and our Sergeant-at-Arms was VP Stephane.  Our Sergeant-at-Arms managed to collect $1140 between the raffle and fines.

Today President Tobias announced that the District Conference would be held between 22^nd and 23^rd of April 2006 at Regal Airport Hotel, while we had just four members signed in, we hoped that we could have more members attend.  The RI Convention, on the other hand, would be held from 11^th to14^th of June 2006 at Copenhagen and Malmo. 

We will have joint meeting with Rotary Club of Hong Kong on 9^th May at Bankers Club and the Board decided the club will cover the difference in the lunch fees.  On the other hand, District Assembly will be held on 13^th May (Sat) at Kowloon Shangri-la Hotel.   In addition, District has organized a tour to visit and participate the charter dinner for Rotary Club of Beijing and Shanghai on 20^th -23^rd May.

The speaker of today was Mr. Garry Stuchbery from IPAC Financial Planning and his topic was “What is the Lifestyle Financial Planning”.  Garry has been in the financial services industry since 1978 and during this time he has gained extensive experience, principally in the areas of financial planning, estate planning and risk planning.  Garry said no one plans to fail but only some people fail to plan, so planning is so important.  Also, the life expectancy has been extensively increased.  While people have longer life expectancy in addition to many changes in society, we need to prepare for our retirement.  Thus, they help their clients to build a financial plan, monitor the progress and help hit the target.  Garry said “Getting started is probably the hardest part of a retirement plan.  However, the longer you put off taking action, the more difficult the task becomes. If you start sooner, you can take advantage of the power of compounding to create wealth”.