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 […]
July has passed and one sports event jumped out on the sports headlines for me. The eight victory of Roger Federer in the tennis Wimbledon final. It was a memorable milestone for Roger Federer, who became the first man in the history of the Wimbledon Championships to lift the title eight times. Well…this dividend income report […]
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 […]
Goodmorning, good evening, good day everyone. Today I am writing this blog post while I am still in New York city. For a business conference and meetings I travel 10 days to New York city. The city that never sleeps… I personally love New York city as there is a specific lifetstyle vibe within this […]
Saturday Morning 8 July 2017 – Starbucks NYC This week I am in New York city. As I wake up early morning due to the time zone difference, I love going to the gym and then grap some healthy breakfast at Starbucks. They have those wireless phone chargers outlets in a wooden table. I love […]
At the 4th of July, I read an interesting blog post of PIERRE HUYLENBROECK with the title “Become incredible RICH” on the Beleggersgids website. Pierre Huylenbroeck is the author of “Everyone investor’ and the publisher of Mister Market Magazine. (URL : www.mistermarket.be) He also wrote 4 books ‘De Reuzen van de Beurs’ (2000), ’40 Meesterwerken uit de Financiële […]
July 2017. Vacation time. A time where each family prepares for their yearly summer vacation. My 8y old daughter also made a year end school presentation about our family plans for the summer of 2017. It’s also a time to reflect on how we grow the money for our foster child. We will do twice […]
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 […]
Belgian people are known within Europe as savings champions. In a survey about money at the end of March (see Blog post “Saving Belgian has no appetite for risk …Our reflection.” ) it was concluded that 67% of Belgians are saving money and 33% could not. The average amount is around 200 Euro. But does that […]
On friday 26th of May, an article in the financial newspaper De TIJD caught my interest. It had the title “Flemish student scores well in financial literacy”. As one of my goals of this blog is to teach everyone about personal finance, I was interested to read about the financial literacy and conclusions from this […]