At the end of my robo investing update, I teased this post. Robo advisors automate the boring part, but AI supposedly goes further: it picks, it times, it trades for you. Whether AI investing in Belgium represents a true advancement in trading, just marketing, or even worse, a fast route to zero, that is what this post is about.
For all of my investing life in Belgium capital gains were tax-free. You bought, it went up, you sold, you kept the difference. you…
*Looks at last portfolio report, sees Q4 2021* Oops, a lot has changed since then... The last time I published a proper portfolio update, we were still talking about Covid, I was still an employee, the renovation hadn't started, and my daughter was a few months old. That was late 2021. It is now June 2026.
A while back, MailerLite did a major platform upgrade. They sent emails asking existing users to migrate to the new version before a certain deadline. Unfortunately, I didn't see those emails.
A few days ago, I dropped a comment on r/ValueInvesting about Microsoft (MSFT) and Adobe (ADBE), and the corresponding collective AI panic that was melting stock analysts’ brains. It seemed like I struck a chord, so I’m unpacking it in more detail here. The underlying point goes beyond just those three stocks.