First of all I want to wish you and your family a merry Christmas ! Enjoy the family time with your beloved ones. Christmas period is the time in which people spend money to buy presents for family and friends. An European survey revealed that 1 out of 4 Belgian families spends more money than […]
Last week of November has kicked in and we are less than 4 weeks away from Christmas. Currently I am in Pennsylvania, USA. As I wake up each morning around 3 am, I can read the Wallstreet Journal after spending 1 hour in the gym. Did you see the headline of the Business & Finance […]
Do you know Tia Hellebaut ? She was a Belgian athlete who won a golden medal for Belgium in the Olympics in China. She did an amazing job high jumping more than 2m high… her hard work and focus on food, sports and her objectives always inspired me to work hard towards my own objectives. […]
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 […]
October 2017 is almost over and Halloween is the next major event for the kids. Shops in Belgium increasingly advertise to stimulate families to buy spooky goodies and costumes. There are now also scary Halloween night walking tours with candles and Halloween parties at schools. In the meantime we keep an eye on the stock […]
Mid October already…only 9 weeks to Christmas. Time flies… In September Financial Education was again in the Belgian news. There is a clear need for financial literacy education. The Flemish government has been discussing for several years now and still nothing has been put in the educational programme of kids. An analysis of the university […]
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 ? […]
September 2017 has passed. We visited yesterday the Day of the Stock Tips, a conference for investors searching for new (buy) opportunities in the stock market. A blogpost about what we learned that day, follows shortly. Now we keep on following the stock markets and what might create any volatility in the stock market. North-Korea […]
August has been a rollercoaster. It was a rollercoaster for my personal life and for my finances. The first week of August was relaxing with our vacation in France. The rollercoaster we visited is the ZEUS rollercoaster in Parc Astérix. At the end of August my friends, family, myself and kids took a flight to Colombia […]
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 […]