On the 30th of September, Sven Sterckx, chairman of the Belgian League for Investors (VFB) opened the investors’ Day of the Tips. Fourteen banks. wealth asset management companies and investment advice companies signed up to present their top 3 investment ideas to the Belgian investor. Below you can read our reflection of the day in three […]
Here’s our September Dividend Income Report for my mom’s portfolio. Did my mom travel in September ? Yes, she did…she travelled to Crete this time. In September Crete has cheap end of season vacations and she travelled with friends 10 days to this beautiful isle. Great for her ! What’s new in September 2017 ? […]
On the 5th of September, VFB Trefpunt in Antwerp, Belgium organized an infosession for investors about “Successful Investing with ETFs”. The presentation was given by Patrick Verelst. As I use ETFs within my dividend portfolio, I was interested to hear what kind of investment strategy with ETFs would be presented that leads to success. I […]
August has been a rollercoaster. It was a rollercoaster for my personal life and for my finances. The first week of August was relaxing with our vacation in France. The rollercoaster we visited is the ZEUS rollercoaster in Parc Astérix. At the end of August my friends, family, myself and kids took a flight to Colombia […]
Some time ago I read an article on the Belgian investors’ website Beleggersgids about Speculating versus Investing. As a result I read the discussion on the website Investopedia what other people think about it. Let’s reflect on the difference between three types of investing : Speculating, Investing and Trading. According to me, all three types […]
Time for a blog post update on one of our portfolio’s…while waiting for a plane in the airport of Kiev, Ukraine. I will finish it on the plane and post. Thanks for reading ! Did my mom travel in August ? Yes, she did…she travelled to Bogota, Colombia to attend our wedding. Colombia is a […]
Hi everyone ! In our 2017 Objectives Setting blogpost, we planned to execute three financial literacy lessons for the kids. My son and my girlfriend’s son are 12 and 13. My daughter is eight. You can’t start early enough with teaching kids how to deal with money. Recently I read a column of Bakelants & […]
July has passed and one sports event jumped out on the sports headlines for me. The eight victory of Roger Federer in the tennis Wimbledon final. It was a memorable milestone for Roger Federer, who became the first man in the history of the Wimbledon Championships to lift the title eight times. Well…this dividend income report […]
Wow….time flies. We are already 12th of August. It will be Christmas in no time, isn’t it? Two weeks of August already passed. Summer vacation of the kids already passed more than half. Kids did enjoy their summer vacation. A few blog posts will appear about that travel adventure in coming weeks. My mom had also […]
Vacation time has ended and back to work. Soccer season has also started and coaches are finetuning their strategy and execution plan with the (new) team that they now have. This week I am for business in a town called Lviv in Ukraine. A lovely town where local people also enjoy life the same way […]