Summer vacation in Italy is over and we enjoyed a great family vacation. A blogpost about this vacation follows in the coming weeks with the highlights of our trip. So life picked up to normal pace. On Sunday mornings I love to start the morning with the Global and Australian Market Update of Garry Davis […]
Lovely Tuesday evening in London while writing a blog post…time to reflect and plan forward. Do you have a gameplan for your retirement finances ? In below graph you can see the current pension for the different employee types. If you have a business and you didn’t save money for your retirement, you are really […]
January is already behind us and also the first week of February. Time flies… My mom started executing her travel plans for 2018. She arrived today in….Dubai. I have been there several times during the past years and it is a fast evolving country and growing economy. Did you know that Burj Dubai hotel changes […]
First week of December is already behind us and the first snow kicked in giving our garden and the country a beautiful snow carpet. It’s time to plan the last activities of the year 2017. Past week I did work mainly on my last Financial Education class for the kids. Before the year end 2017, […]
Have you seen the article in the press ” Buy a house for 1 Euro in Mussomeli” ? The village Mussomeli struggles with a decreasing population and more and more houses are abandoned. It was the major of the village Ollolai in Sardinia that started this kind of initiative last year 2016 to fight the […]
Here’s our October Dividend Income Report for my mom’s portfolio. Did my mom travel in October ? No, she did not…I guess she spend enough money travelling. That doesn’t stop her from going out with friends and continue to help out in social volunteer work. Did you see the headline of 4th November Financial Newspaper […]
Here’s our September Dividend Income Report for my mom’s portfolio. Did my mom travel in September ? Yes, she did…she travelled to Crete this time. In September Crete has cheap end of season vacations and she travelled with friends 10 days to this beautiful isle. Great for her ! What’s new in September 2017 ? […]
Time for a blog post update on one of our portfolio’s…while waiting for a plane in the airport of Kiev, Ukraine. I will finish it on the plane and post. Thanks for reading ! Did my mom travel in August ? Yes, she did…she travelled to Bogota, Colombia to attend our wedding. Colombia is a […]
Wow….time flies. We are already 12th of August. It will be Christmas in no time, isn’t it? Two weeks of August already passed. Summer vacation of the kids already passed more than half. Kids did enjoy their summer vacation. A few blog posts will appear about that travel adventure in coming weeks. My mom had also […]
On 19th July the news came out that the Belgian government considers a tax on investment accounts. When I read this news, I thought I was going to choke…and have a heart attack. “Do politicians have no common sense or brains about investing at all ?” was my first thought. Hereby I write a reflection […]