It is that time of the year. End of December 2017 and early weeks of January we have reflected on our past objectives and set new 2018 objectives. Your boss at work or you as an entrepreneur also does the same, no? What are your goals or good intentions? Stop smoking, more sports or healthier […]
After a great start of 2018 in Curaçao, the normal life rhythm picked up again with school for the kids and business objectives at work. Last week we spend 4 days in the USA where the snow kicked in with beautiful landscapes as a result. See below picture. 2017 was the year where we launched […]
Are you giving your kids or teenagers a financial literacy class or do you expect the schools to take care of that objective? Maybe you need a financial education class as a parent… financial literacy education in schools is very limited and how to grow your money is definitely not part of the educational system. […]
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 & […]
On 19th July the news came out that the Belgian government considers a tax on investment accounts. When I read this news, I thought I was going to choke…and have a heart attack. “Do politicians have no common sense or brains about investing at all ?” was my first thought. Hereby I write a reflection […]
Goodmorning, good evening, good day everyone. Today I am writing this blog post while I am still in New York city. For a business conference and meetings I travel 10 days to New York city. The city that never sleeps… I personally love New York city as there is a specific lifetstyle vibe within this […]
May 2017 was another interesting month. We visited for one week Dalian in China where we saw this accident on the street. Nobody was hurt but the truck blocked three lanes. President Trump visited also Belgium and opened the new NATO headquarters with the other Western leaders. Bel 20 index rallied through to 4000 index […]
On friday 26th of May, an article in the financial newspaper De TIJD caught my interest. It had the title “Flemish student scores well in financial literacy”. As one of my goals of this blog is to teach everyone about personal finance, I was interested to read about the financial literacy and conclusions from this […]
Goodmorning, afternoon or evening…whatever time zone you are in. This time we are in Poland while writing this blog post. A country I have seen develop at fast pace with new high ways, new logistic centers and fast growing IT companies. A lot of the infrastructure projects was paid with European money. If you want […]
Tuesday 2 May I noticed a tweet of Tom Simonts (KBC) about “the BIG debate : Things to do with your money” organized by the financial students organization Capitant. I changed my evening plans and decided to go to Antwerp. The theme of the debate was to manage wisely and knowledgable your money as (graduating) […]