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Portfolio update: new savings account & stock purchases

We are only the second week of January and I can already give a major update on my portfolio and milestones progress. This is in part due to the decline we saw at the end of 2018 and the opportunity it offered me to enter at a lower price for quite a few stocks.

7 important lessons from Index Investing

The marvelous simplicity of Index investing by J. Wintermans (of which a book review will follow soon) is an excellent Dutch book that introduced me…

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) on a stack of coins

How size of ETFs (doesn’t) matter

In my article about PRIIPs, I briefly mentioned that the European alternatives to the now unavailable US-based Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) more often than not are…

PRIIPs regulation printed on the side of a ring folder

How to Buy US ETFs as a European with PRIIPs Regulation

Most European retail investors trading on their own already noticed early in 2018. As a European, it’s not possible to buy US-based Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) anymore. Funds such as SPY, IVV, QQQ, VT, and many others are unavailable. The major culprit? PRIIPs, which stands for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products. So what can we do? Well, let us have a closer look.