Recently the Belgian newspaper “Het Laatste Nieuws” HLN published an article “about how much money you need to save to maintain your life standards during your retirement. The roaring title of the article was ” 85x saving your salary- how do you do that?”. When I read an article from a journalist about personal finance, […]
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 […]
First week of July already passed. Summer vacation for the kids started and my mom has another trip planned for July. Did she travel in June ? Of course she did…She travelled one week on a cruise at the Donau river and visited Budapest and Vienna. I didn’t know you could make a boat cruise […]
Hi everyone, How are you doing? I am doing fine as I am now travelling home from China. I was for one week in the city Dalian, which is in the north of China . I am writing this blog post on the plane from Shanghai to Helsinki. From there, I fly back to Brussels. […]
Hi everyone, the first 2 weeks of May are already behind us. It’s amazing how time flies…here’s our 4th Dividend Income report for my mom’s portfolio Did my mom travel in April 2017 ? Yes, she did…She went for a weekend with friends to Blankenberge at the coast of Belgium. But during that weekend, someone […]
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 […]