Investing Archives

Introducing Legal Insurance In Belgium: What You Need To Know

Legal insurance is something you only think about after a bad experience with the legal system. Due to an increased delay in the delivery of my turnkey apartment, I realized that even with all the research I did before signing the sales agreement, I could still end up in a legal battle. While it’s now too late, I wanted to protect myself better in the future, so I bought legal insurance.

Quarterly Portfolio Report - growing stack of coins

Quarterly Portfolio Report – Q3 & Q4 2021

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While I still reported the first half of 2021, ever since my daughter came into my life, I lacked time to create a Q3 report. This report will thus be for the last half of 2021, i.e., Q3 and Q4.

TINA: “There Is No Alternative” — Why Stocks Still Dominate Long-Term Investing

For those looking to invest for the first time, it's essential to look at what happens if you put your money in a regular savings account. A lot of people do this for fear of losing all their money. However, most of the interest you earn is lost due to inflation.

Ditching Active Funds Account For New Competitive Interactive Brokers Account

After 6 years and 1 month or 2243 days, I finally ended it. I ditched my actively managed portfolio at Beobank. While the performance was decent, it was nowhere near as good as my own portfolio nor even the performance of the popular All-world tracker VWCE.

Apartment progress: 50%; rough construction finally finished!

An update was long overdue, but until mid-August not much had really changed as they were still busy with rough construction. Because they continued working during the yearly Belgian construction leave, the construction company finished rough construction on the heavily delayed schedule.