Past weeks my time has been very limited due to business travel and family activities. It's time for another update
Belgian people are known within Europe as savings champions. In a survey about money at the end of March (see
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How are you doing? I am doing fine as I am now travelling home from China. I was for
During the past five years I invested a lot of free time reading different blogs and investment strategy books. Investing
On friday 26th of May, an article in the financial newspaper De TIJD caught my interest. It had the title
Hello again. May has already passed more than half. Time moves quickly. Moving quickly in the last week of May...
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At the end of March, I read an interesting article about a brand new indoor theme park Comics Station Antwerp that would
Saturday 13th of May, we headed to Thomas More Hogeschool in Mechelen where the investors organization VFB organized a congress about
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the first 2 weeks of May are already behind us. It's amazing how time flies...here's our 4th Dividend Income
Inflation – why you get poorer without realizing it.
Inflation – why you get poorer without realizing it. Imagine you want to buy flowers every week for your loved one and visit her by train. The train ticket costs 10 euro. However in july 2016 the Belgian inflation rose with 2,28%. This means your train ticket is now 12,3 Euro. Life became more expensive […]
Travel the World Report : Colombia
One of the 2016 goals was to visit South-America and if possible do some horse riding there. At the start of each year in Our Goals page, I describe what travel plans we have in mind. As I was learning Spanish too, it was my goal to improve and practice my Spanish as much as […]
The Challenge of a Belgian Dividend Investor
As a dividend investor in Belgium, reaching financial independence is a real challenge. The main problem is that the politicians leading this country and inventing new taxes, have little or no financial knowledge. At the start of 2016, the “little investor” tax became effective taxing all stock gains at 33% for the little investor. Losses […]
Get the Basics : Understand the Golden Rule of Compound Interest
My goal is to become financially independent by the age of 67 , hopefully earlier— i.e., not necessarily fully retiring, but having the financial means to lessen the emphasis on working. My approach to the markets is a steady and methodical style of investing. I view investing as a marathon sport, not a sprint. I […]
Travel the World Report : Malta
For the summer vacation of 2016 with the kids, I did search for a location where I could realize one of the dreams of the kids: swim with dolphins. So I did find the dolphin park at Malta where I booked a swim with dolphins’ session 8 months before the travel. The flat we stayed […]
Travel the World Report : Legoland Denmark
At the end of 2015, my son’s dream was to visit Legoland in Denmark. Legoland in Denmark is the oldest park of Lego and from 1st April onwards it had a new attraction Lego Ninjago. So I took advantage of a early booking promotion which gave us a 30% discount on a 4 day trip […]
Travel the World Report : Western Horse riding vacation in France
In the year 2015, we set the goal to do a horse riding vacation where I could learn Western horse riding. As one of my long term goals, is to do a horse riding safari or a horse riding vacation in Wyoming, USA, one step to get closer to that goal is to learn Western […]