First of all I want to wish you and your family a merry Christmas ! Enjoy the family time with your beloved ones. Christmas period is the time in which people spend money to buy presents for family and friends. An European survey revealed that 1 out of 4 Belgian families spends more money than […]
8 days away from Christmas and time becomes available to learn new cash generating strategies. Several months ago I started to learn options investing. You can read my reasons about learning Options Investing in the Blogpost Why I start LEARNING a NEW INVESTING STRATEGY : OPTIONS During the past months, I wrote several update of my […]
First week of December is already behind us and the first snow kicked in giving our garden and the country a beautiful snow carpet. It’s time to plan the last activities of the year 2017. Past week I did work mainly on my last Financial Education class for the kids. Before the year end 2017, […]
On Friday 17th November, I had scheduled in my calendar for months a visit to Beleggersfair in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The events in the Netherlands focus more on teaching investors and have greater investors’ content compared to Belgium. In Belgium you won’t find Masterclasses or presentations of options investing, CFD’s or Dividend Investment Strategies…just to give […]
Do you know Tia Hellebaut ? She was a Belgian athlete who won a golden medal for Belgium in the Olympics in China. She did an amazing job high jumping more than 2m high… her hard work and focus on food, sports and her objectives always inspired me to work hard towards my own objectives. […]
During the past months in 2017, I wrote several blogposts about financial behavior. Let’s reflect on what are the top 5 financial behavior mistakes you should avoid with all means. The economy in Belgium is growing and new jobs are created every month. Some professions can not even be filled. People have a positive outlook […]
Here’s our October Dividend Income Report for my mom’s portfolio. Did my mom travel in October ? No, she did not…I guess she spend enough money travelling. That doesn’t stop her from going out with friends and continue to help out in social volunteer work. Did you see the headline of 4th November Financial Newspaper […]
In our latest Blogpost “Sectorwatch & My Kids’ Portfolio September Dividend Income Report” we wrote about the current bull market. But we all know that the next financial crisis is probably around the corner—we just don’t know from where and when…right? In today’s blogpost I want to review the three biggest dangers or possible triggers […]
Mid October already…only 9 weeks to Christmas. Time flies… In September Financial Education was again in the Belgian news. There is a clear need for financial literacy education. The Flemish government has been discussing for several years now and still nothing has been put in the educational programme of kids. An analysis of the university […]
On the 2nd of October the student organization Capitant Antwerp organized an event “Start to Invest” for the students of universities in Antwerp. The theme of the evening was “your first steps in investing”. The conference room of the university was too small for all students interested to attend the event… Two speakers were invited […]