From Students
These are accounts from people who attended courses at Lannatim — written in their own words, about what they found useful and what they found difficult.
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Nurul Liyana bt. Hamid
Petaling Jaya · Marketing manager
I completed Reading the Statement in March and came away with something I had not expected: I actually know what my own balance sheet says now. The course does not tell you what to do with that information — it just makes sure you can read what is in front of you. That is more valuable than I realised going in.
April 2025 · Reading the Statement
Chin Thian Seng
Kuala Lumpur · Civil engineer
The Investment Vehicles course is dense — eight weeks and there is a lot to read. But Mr Lenhart is patient with questions, and the sessions never felt rushed. I now understand the fees on my unit trust in a way I simply did not before. Worth the evenings.
March 2025 · Investment Vehicles in Malaysia
Azlina Yusof
Bangsar · Secondary school teacher
I was not sure what to expect from a financial education course that described itself as an annotated page. In practice, it meant we read slowly and carefully. The written exercises were the part I found most useful — having to write what I thought I had understood revealed quite a lot that I had only half understood.
April 2025 · Reading the Statement
Vijayaretnam Rajan
Damansara Heights · Accountant
As an accountant I came to the investment vehicles course expecting to know most of it already. In fact the sections on PRS structure and unit holder rights under Malaysian law were genuinely new to me. The course reads the actual documents, not a simplified summary, and that makes a real difference.
February 2025 · Investment Vehicles in Malaysia
Siew Wei Lin
Kepong · HR officer
I am now in my second term of the Tutored Reading arrangement. It is a different kind of study — there is no fixed syllabus, just a tutor who follows what you are reading and writes back. For someone who learns best by working through material at their own pace, this is ideal.
April 2025 · Tutored Reading Term
Mohd Hafizuddin
Chow Kit · Small business owner
My Malaysian is stronger than my English, and I was slightly apprehensive about a course taught in English. In practice the language was plain and the pace was manageable. Reading the Statement gave me a framework for looking at my own business finances that I did not previously have.
March 2025 · Reading the Statement
Longer Accounts
The starting point
Faridah had been receiving EPF statements for twelve years without reading them carefully. She knew the balance but did not understand the account structure, the dividend calculation, or her withdrawal rights.
The course
She completed both introductory courses over four months: Reading the Statement in one cohort, then Investment Vehicles in the following term. She continued into a Tutored Reading Term.
What changed
By the end of the second course she had read three EPF public disclosure documents in full, compared two unit trust fact sheets in a written exercise, and had written her own household balance sheet twice.
"I had assumed the course would tell me where to put my money. It doesn't do that. What it did was make it possible for me to read what is already in front of me — the statements I have been ignoring. That is not a small thing."
Faridah A. · Accountant · Bangsar South
The starting point
Raymond had read several popular books on personal finance but found they made general claims without teaching him to read the documents behind them. He wanted to understand a fund prospectus without relying on a summary.
The course
He joined the Investment Vehicles cohort directly, having some background in reading financial statements from his engineering work. The eight-week course suited his schedule of two evenings a week.
What changed
He completed a written fee analysis comparing three SC-registered funds in weeks five and six. His tutor's commentary on that exercise is, he says, the most useful financial commentary he has received.
"The written commentary came back marked with specific questions — not corrections, just questions. 'What is the trustee's role in this clause?' That kind of question changes the way you read a document the next time."
Raymond T. · Structural engineer · Mont Kiara
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Students attended
4.7
Average course rating
94%
Completion rate
42
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