This week I am in the USA and the way Americans manage money always strikes me. They use credit cards to pay their bills, they have credit scores for debt, etc… On the 13th of June, I read this article on the website of World Economic Forum 1. A quarter of Americans have no retirement […]
Today we are in Nottingham in the UK. I love early mornings when I travel for business as you can get so many things done in a day. One of the those things is writing a blog post. We are a few days away from the elections in Belgium. Hereby I want to list out […]
Life is getting back to normal after the house move. Time to pick up our investment focus for the different portfolios and read more financial news… In this weekend edition, the financial newspaper De Tijd headlined “Plan of the Belgian government to make stocks popular again fails !” The Belgian government has failed to activate […]
The month of March is already going fast. Time for another update on my mom’s portfolio. As always I start Sunday weekend morning with the update of Garry Davis from Specialist Share Education. The title of his Weekly update is Let the Market come to You! This is the time where you need to sit […]
The heavy business travel of January is behind us and now we can focus on some of our portfolio’s and also the stock market. As always I start Sunday weekend morning with the update of Garry Davis from Specialist Share Education. The title of his Weekly update is Being Negative is Easy! There is a lot […]
What has dominated the news yesterday and will dominate the news today ? The midterm elections in the USA is the number ONE news item in the world. But what do the midterm elections mean for the markets? Here a recent article from OppenheimerFunds caught my attention. This article has some interesting graphs I want […]
Do you know the location of the blog post picture ? No…? My mom did travel to this beautiful isle. Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is just off the “toe” of Italy’s “boot.” Its rich history is reflected in sites like the Valley of the Temples, the well-preserved ruins of 7 monumental, Doric-style Greek temples, […]
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, […]
Another month of checking in on our Mom’s portfolio. My mom decided NOT travel in August but she has a trip planned in September. More about that next month… In August one article from Alison Banney in Australia caught my attention. Three years ago only one in three retirees in Australia expected to outlive their […]
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 […]