In the months of February of 2018, we did follow a free webinar from Piet Vannoppen about “A worry free financial future”. The webinar talked about the poor financial performance of the retail investor and high fees of the banks. This leads to a skinny savings pig…. The bottom line is you better start learning […]
May 2018 is behind us and my mom did travel again last month. She went this time to the Alsace region in France. Alsace is a historical region in northeastern France on the Rhine River plain. Bordering Germany and Switzerland, it has alternated between German and French control over the centuries and reflects a mix […]
In June, Belgian working employees receive their vacation money as an extra to their regular salary. So hurray the extra money comes in our bank account…what can we do with this extra money ? Let’s list the 5 things you can do with this extra money and reflect back what we did with it. 1. […]
Lovely Tuesday evening in London while writing a blog post…time to reflect and plan forward. Do you have a gameplan for your retirement finances ? In below graph you can see the current pension for the different employee types. If you have a business and you didn’t save money for your retirement, you are really […]
Although May is full of public holidays, it is also a month full of business travel. The past week we spend a very busy week in Easton, Pennsylvania in the USA. That’s why I didn’t have time for my wednesday blog post. Anyways…do you know anything about the Lehigh Valley ? The Lehigh Valley has […]
On Saturday 5th of May, VFB organized his second event of Financial planning. Last year we did attend this event as well and wrote this blog post about our key learnings. VFB event – Financial Planning : what did we learn ? Last year around 100 people attended this event and this year even more […]
May 2018 with lovely spring weather has arrived in Belgium but my mom decided to travel again. This time she picked the Italian riviera as her final destination. The featured picture for this blog post comes from the town Imperia in Italy. Imperia is a lovely coastal city on the Liguria coast between the French […]
During the early 2000’s I owned an Apple store. I was one of the first Apple users in the late ’90s. Unfortunately I sold the business before the iPhone was launched. During that time frame I did meet a lot of creative entrepreneurs in the music, video and photography industry. Some of those entrepreneurs are […]
Two more days and we enter the month of May. May is the month with many public holidays. It is also the month in which the United Kingdom celebrates May as the National Smile Month. In a nutshell, National Smile Month is the UK’s largest and longest-running campaign to promote good oral health. Together, with thousands of […]
April 2018. Vacation time for the kids ended and time to go back to school. A moment where I also take a big envelop and put memories of the past year events, pictures, drawings of the kids in ONE big envelop and send it to our foster child in Nepal. I will this time add […]