In the past years I have written several blog posts about the savings account behavior of the majority of Belgian people. Below blog posts date from january and april 2017. Read about collective (stupid) behavior of the Belgian population Saving Belgian has no appetite for risk …Our reflection Has anything changed since that time ? […]
Vacation is starting tomorrow on the 1st of July and people have now more time to relax, read and enjoy some quality time with family and/or friends. At the end of June, I noticed an interesting article of Fredrik Arnold on Seekingalpha.com. Fredrik Arnold gives an insight on Warren Buffett’s Portfolio. If you see the chart […]
The summer vacation has ended for the kids and the VFB investors organization also kicks off his year end program. In July I had marked the date 3rd of September in my calendar. A presentation of the economist Bruno Verstraete caught my interest. There is a strong correlation between the economy and the stock market. […]
Past months one date was marked in my calendar… Saturday 30th of June. Last year we did attend one of the Benelux FIRE meetings in Eindhoven organized by CheesyFinance. You can read the blogpost of last year event here. (Click “here” to take you to the blogpost) Last Saturday I drove to Utrecht, Netherlands to […]
On Saturday 5th of May, VFB organized his second event of Financial planning. Last year we did attend this event as well and wrote this blog post about our key learnings. VFB event – Financial Planning : what did we learn ? Last year around 100 people attended this event and this year even more […]
On Saturday 24th of March, it was D-day again for investors in Flanders. VFB organized his congress in the Kinepolis in Antwerp. Around 1500 investors attended this conference. The conference could welcome more than 30 CEOs of Belgian stock listed companies. Here is the program of the companies that were presenting their company strategy, financials […]
During the past three days, I spend at an IT Technology conference in Barcelona. It is always an exciting and learning experience when more than 7000 people come together to share strategies and key insights about technology and their projects within their companies. Did you know that we lose 1,5 year of our life doubting […]
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 […]
At the 4th of July, I read an interesting blog post of PIERRE HUYLENBROECK with the title “Become incredible RICH” on the Beleggersgids website. Pierre Huylenbroeck is the author of “Everyone investor’ and the publisher of Mister Market Magazine. (URL : www.mistermarket.be) He also wrote 4 books ‘De Reuzen van de Beurs’ (2000), ’40 Meesterwerken uit de Financiële […]
Saturday 13th of May, we headed to Thomas More Hogeschool in Mechelen where the investors organization VFB organized a congress about Financial Planning. This congress caught my interest as it consisted of 4 presentations about 4 different financial planning topics. In an aula filled with around 100 people, Sven Sterckx, chairman of VFB opened the day […]