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Free Workshop

How to build wealth on autopilot: evidence-based investing, optimized for Belgian taxes

Invest in the stock market, without paying high fees to banks or advisors, taking unnecessary risks or spending all day analysing the markets.
By Sébastien Aguilar - Founder of FIRE Belgium
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What you will learn:

  1. 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. Proven by 50 years of academic research.
  2. How to minimize Belgian investment taxes and optimize returns
  3. How to invest well with 100 euros (you don’t need much to get started!) in less than 5 minutes a month
  4. How to get started with index investing Belgium in just a few weeks – my practical roadmap to learn everything you need to know and start investing with confidence.

Watch the Interactive Workshop

This workshop is available on demand here, so you can join whenever it works best for you. 

The core of the workshop lasts 90 minutes, with additional bonus content at the end. So, make sure to check it or schedule it for when you have enough time. 

This workshop is interactive: I will be asking you questions throughout and sharing tips and ressources to help you make progress. 

During the workshop you can interact with me in the chat. If I’m available, I’ll respond to you right away. And if I’m not, I will get back to you by email.

That way it’s the best of both worlds: you get to enjoy the workshop whenever you want and you get responses to your questions as well! Enjoy!

Watch the workshop now

Instead of running this workshop live every few months, I have made it available on demand here, so you can join whenever it works best for you. 

It’s 1 hour and 20 minutes long, so make sure to check it when you have enough time.

Although this workshop was recorded live on the 12th of October 2023, when you watch the recording, you will still be able to reach out to us with questions through chat and participate in the experience as if it were live! Enjoy!

The financial industry wants us to believe that investing is too risky and too complex and that (of course) hiring them is our best option… 

I believed that too until 2012. 

Back then I was trying to figure out how to plan for my pension and boost my retirement income. 

I trusted banks and financial advisors to help me but all they did was charge a lot of money for pretty bad results. 

That is when I discovered index investing and when I realized there was a simple way to build wealth very effectively.

And I was shocked when I realized how much the financial industry was taking away from regular people like you and me (they took 25% of my investments over 4 years!) and how simple the alternative was.

In fact, in the last few decades, investing has become easier and easier for individuals like you and me. 

With the rise of index funds, exchange traded funds and discount brokers, investing is now something that anyone with an internet connection can do, and at a fraction of the costs charged by most banks or financial advisers.

Index investing was built upon decades of academic research and practical experience by thousands of investors (such as the Bogleheads) and has also proven to be far more effective than most other stock market investing approaches (better returns, less time required and much simpler to implement).

But it’s important to get the right knowledge, understand how good index investing works, build a personal investment plan and avoid costly mistakes.

That is what I cover in this online workshop.

Here is what you will learn in this session:

  • How does index investing compare to more traditional approaches (and how much more it can generate for you)
  • How to use the core principles of index investing to beat professional fund managers (and banks) and protect yourself during market crashes
  • How to invest well with 100 euros (you don’t need much to get started!) in less than 5 minutes a month (many index investors spend even less time than that)
  • How to get started with index investing Belgium in just a few weeks - my practical roadmap to learn everything you need to know and start investing with confidence
  • I will also present the 4-step learning and investing program I have been developing in the past 3 years to help people who need guidance to put all of this into action. This program has already helped more than 300 people in Belgium take control of their finances, build their personal plan and start investing in index funds.

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

Watch the Interactive Workshop

This workshop is available on demand here, so you can join whenever it works best for you. 

The core of the workshop lasts 90 minutes, with additional bonus content at the end. So, make sure to check it or schedule it for when you have enough time. 

This workshop is interactive: I will be asking you questions throughout and sharing tips and ressources to help you make progress. 

During the workshop you can interact with me in the chat. If I’m available, I’ll respond to you right away. And if I’m not, I will get back to you by email.

That way it’s the best of both worlds: you get to enjoy the workshop whenever you want and you get responses to your questions as well! Enjoy!

Testimonials

5/5
“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
5/5
“Index investing makes you less dependent on stuff like a pension from the government, for which there's quite a bit of uncertainty.”
Marcia V.
Life Coach

This workshop is for you if

  • You want to manage your finances responsibly
  • You want to invest well for the long term and not have to stress about it
  • You don’t want your savings to lose value to inflation on a savings account
  • You know banks are only pushing their own investment products so that they can charge high fees
  • You know stock picking is very-time consuming, risky and stressful and that on average it performs worse than index investing
  • You’ve heard of index funds and ETFs and you’re wondering what they are and how they work
  • You know you want to start index investing, but you don’t know where to start
  • You want to start index investing and you want to follow an easy step by step plan to get going

This webinar is NOT for you if

  • You are not yet able to set aside 100 euros per month (it’s best to start investing after you have paid off your expensive debt and established an emergency fund)
  • You want to dedicate 5 to 40 hours per week to analyze the markets and look for hidden gems (after the initial learning and setup, index investing takes 5 minutes per month)
  • You believe you have stock picking and trading skills that are better than the smartest professional fund managers out there

Pick the date and join us!

If you’re curious about index investing or are just getting started, I’d like to invite you to join one of our upcoming online workshops. The 3 sessions are the same in terms of content, just different language and speaker.

Register here for the ENGLISH Workshop on Monday 9 December at 8.30 PM (by Sébastien Aguilar)
Register here for the DUTCH Workshop on Tuesday 10 December at 8.30 PM (by Toon Cuypers)
Register here for the ENGLISH Workshop on Wednesday 11 December at 8.30 PM (by Sébastien Aguilar)

If you’re comfortable in English, we recommend joining one of the English sessions. However, if you are not at ease in English and Dutch is your preferred language, the Tuesday session is available for you!

Pick the date and language that suits you best, and register to join us!

Watch the Interactive Workshop

The core of the workshop lasts 90 minutes, with additional bonus content at the end. So, make sure to check it or schedule it for when you have enough time. 

This workshop is interactive: I will be asking you questions throughout and sharing tips and ressources to help you make progress. 

During the workshop you can interact with me in the chat. If I’m available, I’ll respond to you right away. And if I’m not, I will get back to you by email.

That way it’s the best of both worlds: you get to enjoy the workshop whenever you want and you get responses to your questions as well! Enjoy!

Your instructor
Sebastien Aguilar, Founder of FIRE Belgium

“I believe money is the most powerful tool to create security and freedom in your life, so that you can focus on what truly matters”.

Sebastien is an educator and community builder in the areas of personal finance and investing. Formerly he was a management consultant in the field of sustainability and climate change. He reached financial independence (and early retirement) at 33, solely via saving and index investing and since then spends most of his time with his wife and 2 young boys.

He has been helping people start index investing since 2015. In 2019 he founded FIRE Belgium, a fast-growing community of more than 8000 people today who help each other take control of their finances to live better lives.

Through regular meetups, online events and courses, Sebastien teaches simple and effective strategies to build financial security and freedom in our lives. 

Before that, Sebastien had also founded the SimplyFI.org community in the Middle East where he has helped tens of thousands of people take control of their finances and start investing.

Sebastien sees money and investing as tools to help people find peace of mind, unlock their potential and create a lasting positive impact around them.

Sebastien has been featured for his work in numerous media in Belgium (RTL TVI, Le Soir, De Morgen, Het Nieuwsblad, Het Laatste Nieuws, Le Vif Weekend) and the UAE (The National) as well as on many podcasts.

Sebastien speaks and teaches about three simple but life changing concepts:

  • Index investing: a simple and effective method to invest and get better results than banks and investment professionals, a method built upon decades of academic research (that the financial industry would prefer you not to know about) and the experience of a large community of investors. Index investing can be learned by anyone in just a few weeks or months, and requires less than 5 minutes per month once it is in place.
  • Financial independence: while we all know time is money, few people use money to make time. Financial independence is a life-style design that combines simplicity, clear values and financial optimization to create time and opportunities (with the option to retire early). The math is simple, the journey is an incredible experience.
  • Effective altruism: Doing good better, using reason and evidence to guide our choices and help us decide where to invest our time, energy and resources to optimize for positive impact. Supported by a strong academic community, effective altruism aims to maximize the good one can do. We look for neglected opportunities to have an impact that is effective, proven to work and that can scale. Sebastien writes about this topic on a separate blog: www.impactivated.com

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Testimonials

5/5
“Sebastien is a very mindful person, very respectful towards everyone. Even if you do not know anything, he is very patient and very helpful and very respectful towards any question that you might have. What helps too is that Sebastien went through the same trajectory. So he knows how it is to start. He can help with all the questions that you can have while on the journey. He has a lot of understanding and a lot of first-hand knowledge that doesn't come only from books, but also from his own experience.”
Lisa B.
Manager

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