On a warm Monday evening 12th of June, I drove to Gent to attend an interesting evening where Bart Goemaere spoke about his favorite stocks. Honestly I never heard about Bart, nor about his investors’ magazine. Today many people ask which stocks to buy? Which ones are still undervalued after a strong bull market? Interesting […]
May 2017 was another interesting month. We visited for one week Dalian in China where we saw this accident on the street. Nobody was hurt but the truck blocked three lanes. President Trump visited also Belgium and opened the new NATO headquarters with the other Western leaders. Bel 20 index rallied through to 4000 index […]
During the past five years I invested a lot of free time reading different blogs and investment strategy books. Investing money and learning how to grow money is a passionate hobby besides all the other hobbies that I like to do. Growing your money should be a basic skill that everyone learns in his lifetime. […]
Saturday 13th of May, we headed to Thomas More Hogeschool in Mechelen where the investors organization VFB organized a congress about Financial Planning. This congress caught my interest as it consisted of 4 presentations about 4 different financial planning topics. In an aula filled with around 100 people, Sven Sterckx, chairman of VFB opened the day […]
you don’t know the following 5 key insights about investing money in the stock market When you ask an investor what is the most important element of your portfolio, 95% will give you the WRONG answer. Most investors assume still that capital gains deliver the biggest return longterm. But in reality it is not capital […]
Goodmorning, afternoon or evening…whatever time zone you are in. This time we are in Poland while writing this blog post. A country I have seen develop at fast pace with new high ways, new logistic centers and fast growing IT companies. A lot of the infrastructure projects was paid with European money. If you want […]
Tuesday 2 May I noticed a tweet of Tom Simonts (KBC) about “the BIG debate : Things to do with your money” organized by the financial students organization Capitant. I changed my evening plans and decided to go to Antwerp. The theme of the debate was to manage wisely and knowledgable your money as (graduating) […]
In the week of 24 April, a CD&V parlement member Nahima Lanjri wants to put forward a law to oblige kids to pay the invoices and costs of the pension homes where their parents live during their pension. How does the Belgian Retirement System work ? When you retire you receive a pension from Belgian […]
Saturday morning 22 April. We just finished breakfast. Our first horse riding class of the season got cancelled as our teacher texted that she was sick. Nothing we could do about it but it changed my day program that I planned. I get a phone call on my mobile…it shows UNKNOWN…mmmm I am always sceptical […]
Being rich…what does it mean to you? Or do you want to be wealthy? Being rich has different meanings for different people. You can perfectly be rich without having any money. But it is definitely harder to pay for your education and enjoy life without money. During my career I travelled in more than 20 […]