Hi everyone, Here’s already our 3rd Dividend Income for my mom’s portfolio. I am writing this blog post while I am in Chihuahua, Mexico. It is a business trip. But as you know I love to travel. My mom loves to travel too since she went into retirement. My mom saves 100 Euro/month but honestly […]
On 25th February 2017 there was a roundtable discussion of US and Canadian investors talking about the fact that prices were going up, but dividends keep coming… What did we learn from this article on Seekingalpha.com? What is our opinion? What can you learn from this roundtable? In the US and Canada dividend (growth) investing […]
On Saturday 25th of February, it was D-day again for investors in Flanders. VFB organized his congress in the Kinepolis in Antwerp. More than 1000 investors attended this conference. The conference was focused on Technology and Innovation. Here is the program of the companies presenting their company strategy and results. Programma Happening Additionally there was a […]
Several months ago I purchased the book “Beleggen voor (je) kinderen. The author is Wilfriend Voorspoels, who has more than 30 years of experience as an investor. We purchased the book to learn about specific insights that we could apply in our investing strategy for our kids. Book Review with Personal remarks A savings account […]
Welcome to our February Dividend Report Out. March is progressing fast while we review our February 2017 performance. With our travel to Paris and Lviv in Ukraine we had a busy month of travel behind us. You may wonder why I use a picture of a SICK tomato plant….I suggest you read until the end….thanks! […]
Hi everyone, Time flies…the short month of february is already behind us. We enjoyed a day trip to Oostende, a week trip to Paris with the family and 3 days in the Ukraine in a beautiful town Lviv for business. I will publish 3 blog posts about those experiences in the month of March. We […]
Financial education is IMPORTANT! If you read my biography in About me, you know that we invest time each year in our financial education. This also means sacrificing a Saturday or an evening instead of being with the family. One of those activities to learn about stock investing is to attend conferences organized by VFB, […]
On Saturday we buy always the financial newspaper De Tijd in a local newspaper shop. Here we reflect on two articles that we read in the newspaper of the 11th of February. I think nobody does see the connection between the two articles and that’s why we reflect here on those two articles. Article 1: […]
14th February 2017 Today is a special day. It’s Valentine day and we are celebrating our relationship with our beloved one. Additionally, after one year of hard work, we are launching our Personal Finance and Travel blog on all social media. Read about why we are starting a blog and the journey from the initial […]
Yesterday an interesting article appeared in the Belgian press. Saving Belgian also guilty on keeping interest rates low… According to a study of Eric Dor, a professor of economics, is the ECB low interest rate policy not the only reason for low interest rates on savings accounts. His reasoning is that the Belgians just keep […]