The 13th Malaysian Equity Week or Minggu Amanah Saham Malaysia or in short MSAM which I pronounce MASAM set a new record in Sabah by having more than 260K visitors.  The event was held from 20th to 28th April 2012 at the Likas Sports Complex with last year theme at Perak, ‘Investment For 1Malaysia’. Let’s look at all the 13 years attendance records…

2000 – PWTC, Kuala Lumpur – 60,000
2001 – Kota Bharu, Kelantan – 190,000
2002 – Alor Star, Kedah    – 160,000
2003 – Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur – 85,000
2004 – Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang – 200,000
2005 – Seremban, Negeri Sembilan – 155,000
2006 – Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu – 250,000
2007 – Kuantan, Pahang – 202,000
2008 – Ayer Keroh, Melaka – 249,000
2009 – Johor Bahru, Johor – 156,000
2010 – Kuching, Sarawak – 187,000
2011 – Ipoh, Perak – 177,000
2012 – Kota Kinabalu, Sabah – 268,787

The organizer, Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) was credited for the success of MSAM and for giving the opportunity to the people with many types of investment from many trusted financial institution who participated in the one week event.

I went to MSAM around 10.30 am on the first day… and I consider it was the best time since there were not many visitors yet except for many schools kids. It turned super crowded after lunch time where the PM was opening the event at 3 PM.

I did not invest anything although there are many types of investment opportunity available. From savings, shares, properties, loans and many more which I can’t recall… probably there is even title loans Texas offered by any of the participating investment… which includes shipping business opportunity.

I guess the main reason people are attracted with the event was the daily lucky draw. Every day they are giving away prizes like bike, bicycle, ipad, galaxy tab, dvd players and many more. During the opening, one unit of Toyota Hilux Vigo 2.5 was the main prize… during the closing was Ford Fiesta with Perodua MyVi as the grand prize… lucky and congratulations to all the lucky winners… I wish I won something, but I just don’t have luck… 😛