Preparing for your retirement used to be so simple: You keep your job or build your business, bid farewell to the race after 30 years or more of hard work, and enjoy the remaining years in rest and relaxation, funded by your pension plan. However,...
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How to Choose the Best Financial Protection
Be Certain of this. Unwanted events are often just around the corner. Just when you thought your career path was secure, your company fails. You’re back on the job market in a depressed employment climate. There are big mortgage payments to meet and your children...
All 44 shares owned by Warren Buffett
When you think of Warren Buffett, you probably think of stocks like Apple and Coca Cola. That’s right, because he has them too, for the most part. Nevertheless, Buffett invests in many more companies. Because the oracle of Omaha is one of the best investors...
Investing for beginners
How to start investing? It is relatively easy to get lost in the financial world. Bonds, stocks, options, futures, and investment funds can quickly sound intimidating to novice investors. But you don’t have to. And in this article, we would like to explain how you...
Warren Buffett’s view on diversification
Investors have been told for years that a diversified equity portfolio is a must in turbulent times. Yet Warren Buffett, the world’s most successful investor, barely does that. More than 78% of Buffett’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway, worth almost $188 billion in total, is invested...
Investing in ETFs
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are, just like index funds, also called trackers. With these trackers, you can quickly diversify your investments in an index. For example, in the AEX index and indices for specific business sectors or themes (such as sustainability). ETFs follow an index. The...
Investing in Bitcoins
Bitcoins and other digital currencies make the headlines daily. It’s also about the record sums that a Bitcoin has to pay, the gains in investment, or the immense swings in the exchange rate. Criminals often crack the digital wallets of investors and steal the content....
Investing in Gold
Gold has been used over the ages as a means of payment. But even today, this precious metal is used by nervous investors , especially when they expect volatile times or a significant depreciation of their currency.