What we’re about
Welcome to FIRE Belgium! We're a community of personal finance enthusiasts. We love to learn and share our experience about earning, saving, investing and living a good life.
We believe everyone should enjoy the benefits of investing for their retirement, and feel in control of their personal finance. We believe money is a tool to improve our lives and the lives of others around us.
We focus on building financial security and freedom through simple and effective investing strategies, based on Nobel prize winning academic research: index investing. We are also open to other methods of wealth creation of course, as long as they follow common sense and allow us to spend more time enjoying our lives.
Get your FREE copy of our Beginner's Guide to Index Investing HERE: https://mailchi.mp/b22b0542bb63/beginner-guide
Watch the FREE workshop on how to start with index investing: https://firebelgium.com/investingworkshop/
As we build more financial freedom in our lives, we aim to reach financial independence, a state where we do not rely on work to generate the necessary income to sustain our lives. We believe time is money, and money is time. We invest so that we can buy more time and freedom.
We also believe financial independence is a great enabler of good. We grow beyond our own individual needs and use our FI powers to make the better place.
Aside from this meetup group where we will be posting the events, we also have a Facebook group, where a lot of interesting conversation is taking place online. Make sure you join us there as well as it is more active!
You can also learn more about FIRE Belgium and subscribe to its newsletter on the FIRE Belgium Website.
Welcome to FIRE Belgium!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- FREE Online Workshop: How to build wealth on autopilot in Belgium [10 Oct]Link visible for attendees
How to build wealth on autopilot - evidence-based investing, optimized for Belgian taxes
By Sebastien Aguilar - Founder of FIRE Belgium
Registration in advance required via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuqoqz8jHdxwttk_ZxWOeWhF_I1P4uiQ
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What you will learn:
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How to invest to get better results than banks and professional fund managers - while doing 0.1% of the work and paying 10 times less (the stuff banks don't want you to know). Proven by 50 years of academic research.
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How to minimize Belgian investment taxes and optimize returns
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How to invest well with 100 euros (you don’t need much to get started!) in less than 5 minutes a month
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How to start index investing in Belgium fast - my practical roadmap to learn everything you need to know and start investing with confidence.
This is the information I wish I had found when I first started on this journey back in 2011.
My goal is to save you time and money, by presenting the most important lessons I have learned in the past 12 years, and preventing you from making the same costly mistakes I made.
I will also share information about the 4-step program I have developed to help people who need guidance to put all of this into action.
By the end of the workshop you will have gained
- Clarity on the power and index investing and how it can transform your life
- Knowledge of the 4 pillars of index investing
- Confidence that you too can take control of your finances and start index investing
- A roadmap to start your journey
Hundreds of people have used it successfully. Now it's your turn.
If you're looking to build financial security and freedom in your life, then this event is for you.
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REGISTRATION REQUIRED (via ZOOM):
This event will be running 2 times during the same week.
This is the page for the event on Tuesday 10 October 2023, 8.30 PM
Register in advance to receive free access to the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuqoqz8jHdxwttk_ZxWOeWhF_I1P4uiQ(There is another session scheduled for Thursday 12 October 2023, 8.30 PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtceyrpjovH9Dd9Rs0GEAXowLDfmrgSDBI).
SPEAKER:
Sébastien Aguilar
Founder and Instructor, FIRE BelgiumSebastien teaches people how to build wealth on autopilot, with evidence-based investing optimized for Belgian taxes.
He also runs FIREBelgium.com, a community of 8000 personal finance enthusiasts who empower each other to build financial freedom in their lives.
Sebastien is not a financial professional, but he learned the hard way that you don't need to take crazy risks nor pay expensive managers or banks to get optimal returns from the stock market.
Instead, you need common sense knowledge and a simple plan. After consistently saving and investing during his career he reached financial independence at 33.
Today, he teaches busy professionals in Belgium how to invest simply and effectively via index ETFs, a method proven by countless studies to generate better returns than most professional managers and that requires less than 5 min per month to manage.
Sébastien has been featured in De Morgen, HLN, De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, RTL, LN24, Le Soir and Le Vif amongst other.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY:
“It's empowering and exciting to think that you can really make your money work for you in a reasonable way, not in a casino style where it's either a winner or loser, but in a robust, thoughtful way. It can definitely be a much better option than just having it lying on your bank account.”
DAVID M, ANALYST“Index investing makes you less dependent on stuff like a pension from the government, for which there's quite a bit of uncertainty."
MARCIA, LIFE COACH“I started a lot with stock picking and I got lucky because I started during COVID and everything was a bit cheap, but I noticed that it was too much, it was too demanding, I put too much energy in it and too much time. And then I discovered index investing.”
LOIC, FATHER & START UP EMPLOYEE -
- FREE Online Workshop: How to build wealth on autopilot in Belgium [12 Oct]Link visible for attendees
How to build wealth on autopilot - evidence-based investing, optimized for Belgian taxes
By Sebastien Aguilar - Founder of FIRE Belgium
Registration in advance required via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtceyrpjovH9Dd9Rs0GEAXowLDfmrgSDBI
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What you will learn:
- How to invest to get better results than banks and professional fund managers - while doing 0.1% of the work and paying 10 times less (the stuff banks don't want you to know). Proven by 50 years of academic research.
- How to minimize Belgian investment taxes and optimize returns
- How to invest well with 100 euros (you don’t need much to get started!) in less than 5 minutes a month
- How to start index investing in Belgium fast - my practical roadmap to learn everything you need to know and start investing with confidence.
This is the information I wish I had found when I first started on this journey back in 2011.
My goal is to save you time and money, by presenting the most important lessons I have learned in the past 12 years, and preventing you from making the same costly mistakes I made.
I will also share information about the 4-step program I have developed to help people who need guidance to put all of this into action.
By the end of the workshop you will have gained
- Clarity on the power and index investing and how it can transform your life
- Knowledge of the 4 pillars of index investing
- Confidence that you too can take control of your finances and start index investing
- A roadmap to start your journey
Hundreds of people have used it successfully. Now it's your turn.
If you're looking to build financial security and freedom in your life, then this event is for you.
--
REGISTRATION REQUIRED (via ZOOM):
This event will be running 2 times during the same week.
This is the page for the event on Thursday 12 October 2023, 8.30 PM
Register in advance to receive free access to the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtceyrpjovH9Dd9Rs0GEAXowLDfmrgSDBI(There is another session scheduled for Tuesday 10 October 2023, 8.30 PM: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuqoqz8jHdxwttk_ZxWOeWhF_I1P4uiQ).
SPEAKER:
Sébastien Aguilar
Founder and Instructor, FIRE BelgiumSebastien teaches people how to build wealth on autopilot, with evidence-based investing optimized for Belgian taxes.
He also runs FIREBelgium.com, a community of 8000 personal finance enthusiasts who empower each other to build financial freedom in their lives.
Sebastien is not a financial professional, but he learned the hard way that you don't need to take crazy risks nor pay expensive managers or banks to get optimal returns from the stock market.
Instead, you need common sense knowledge and a simple plan. After consistently saving and investing during his career he reached financial independence at 33.
Today, he teaches busy professionals in Belgium how to invest simply and effectively via index ETFs, a method proven by countless studies to generate better returns than most professional managers and that requires less than 5 min per month to manage.
Sébastien has been featured in De Morgen, HLN, De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, RTL, LN24, Le Soir and Le Vif amongst other.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY:
“It's empowering and exciting to think that you can really make your money work for you in a reasonable way, not in a casino style where it's either a winner or loser, but in a robust, thoughtful way. It can definitely be a much better option than just having it lying on your bank account.”
DAVID M, ANALYST“Index investing makes you less dependent on stuff like a pension from the government, for which there's quite a bit of uncertainty."
MARCIA, LIFE COACH“I started a lot with stock picking and I got lucky because I started during COVID and everything was a bit cheap, but I noticed that it was too much, it was too demanding, I put too much energy in it and too much time. And then I discovered index investing.”
LOIC, FATHER & START UP EMPLOYEE
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