Past weeks my schedule has been pretty hectic. My mom was rushed in emergency to the hospital. Thank God she
August has been a rollercoaster. It was a rollercoaster for my personal life and for my finances. The first week
Some time ago I read an article on the Belgian investors' website Beleggersgids about Speculating versus Investing. As a result
Time for a blog post update on one of our portfolio's...while waiting for a plane in the airport of Kiev,
On the 4th of September, the Belgian League for Investors (VFB) kicked off the fall season again for Flemish investors with new
Today's blogpost will be a more personal one...
August has passed and the last weekend of August has been an exciting
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In our 2017 Objectives Setting blogpost, we planned to execute three financial literacy lessons for the kids. My
In our Objectives 2017 setting, we jotted down on nr 3"Plan and relax two weeks somewhere in the world with
Today is the last day of August 2017. Tomorrow kids go back to school...today they are playing their favorite game
Key Learnings from Roundtable discussion US & Canadian Dividend Investors
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 […]
VFB Happening 2017: what did we learn?
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 […]
Book Review : Investing for your kids (Beleggen voor (je) kinderen)
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 […]
My Own Portfolio : Dividend Income Report Out February 2017
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! […]
City Break Report : Experience Paris, the city of LOVE in France
In the beginning of January 2017, we reflected on our 2016 year where we visited New York (USA), Colombia, London and many other great travel locations and experiences that we did. And when I asked the kids at that time where should we go for a city trip, they mentioned immediately two locations. Those 2 […]
My Kids’ Portfolio : Dividend Income Report Out February 2017
Hello again. Here’s the second dividend income report of 2017 for my kids’ portfolio! As you could read in My kids’ portfolio page, we doubled our kids saving money from 5K to 10K in a 5 year time frame using our defensive strategy from our Financial strategy. Now we are activating this 10K into a […]
Belgium Must-See : Visit to Oostende
On the 4th of March, we decided to meet up with friends at the city of Oostende. As I rarely go to the sea coast in winter time, we decided to make it a day trip. Before leaving to town, I did some internet research and here are the 7 reasons why you should visit […]
My Mom’s Portfolio : Dividend Income Report Out February 2017
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 […]
Technical Analysis Day VFB: What did we learn?
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, […]
Belgian buys 98% less stocks…so sad…learn about dividend investing !
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: […]