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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hi everyone ! In our 2017 Objectives Setting blogpost, we said that we wanted to do three finance lessons for the kids. My son and my girlfriend’s son are 12. My daughter is eight. You can’t start early enough with teaching kids how to deal with money. In below roadmap, you clearly see how you […]
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 […]
Recently I got the question from a student: “I’m in my early 20s and want to get a head start on financial success, but I don’t want to make mistakes that could prevent me from achieving my goal. What do you suggest?” Below are five financial mistakes with the capacity to seriously undermine your economic […]