Investments

On September 18, 2020, I won an online auction for a property in the countryside Latvia. This was the second time me using E-izsoles platform, and the second time winning an online auction (for the truth I won the first time a plot of land, but that place turned out not good for a house building and I revoked it, back in Summer of 2019) In total today, I agreed to pay EUR 3,760 for a 53,7 m2 flat in a 3-storer building in rural Latvia. The name of the village is Vilgāle, and it's located some…

Hey options traders, I've started a newsletter! Subscribe here! So far it's been live options trades and some trade ideas. I'm hoping there will be other stuff, too. I'm not sure how often it will come out, as I trade often, I'm thinking ... five times a week? There are a plan to send out two free and three paid (paying subscribers) newsletters in a week. For hosting this newsletter I've chosen the substack platform, which takes off a lot of hassle, as publishers we can focus on what matters…

Welcome to the forty (#40) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in August 2020. Last August I turned 35, because of the Covid-19 we couldn't travel much and decided to stay in Georgia. At the start of August we headed to the Black sea coastal town Batumi, and then visited the 5-star Paragraph hotel in Shekvetili for a couple of days. August was pretty awesome. Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili, Autograph Collection…

On July 6, 2020, we bought an additional 10 shares of Pfizer (PFE) paying $34.80 per share for our Partnership Fund. With its quarterly dividend payout of 0.38 dollars per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.36% (before tax) and will pay us an additional $3.80 (before tax) every quarter. Not the biggest dividend, but every bit counts!  There are three simple reasons we like this stock - it has a reasonably high dividend yield of more than 3%, it has increased the dividend payout…

Welcome to the thirty-ninth (#39) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in July 2020. Just like the previous months, the last June we also spent in a self-isolation (because of Covid-19) here in Georgia. More of the strict lockdown measurements were lifted (inner tourism, restaurants, and hotels were opened for public)  we did a few weekend trips with an overnight stay at local resorts here in Georgia.  The baby girl attends …

It was back in 2011 or 2012 when I first heard about Bank of Georgia or TBC bank is listed on the London stock exchange. Back then I thought - wow, cool, impressive. Fast forward to 2020, I still think this is impressive that Georgia has a few companies listed on the London stock exchange, but as my investment horizons have shifted towards dividend investing + options trading, I don't find investing on LSE interesting.  Anyhow, in today's article I'm going to look at four Georgian companies…

Welcome to the thirty-eight (#38) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in June 2020. Just like the previous months, the last June we also spent in a self-isolation (because of Covid-19) here in Georgia. More of the strict lockdown measurements were lifted (inner tourism, restaurants and hotels were opened for public)  we did a few weekend trips with an overnight stay at local resorts here in Georgia.  Baby girl is started to…

In 2020 three were 27 member states in the European Union (EU), 19 of the 27 EU member states have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency. In this article, I've compared the gross monthly average salary for 2020. As I have been writing these articles since 2014, I've left the United Kingdom, just for reference. Update: Average Monthly Salary in European Union 2022 I wouldn't call the below written scientific research or take it too seriously, as most of the data in this article are…

In 2020 there were 21 out of 27 European Union member states with an official minimum wage set by the government. In this article I've listed them all, also this is the first year I'm not including data for the UK in this table Turns out this is already the seventh (#7) article about minimum wages in European Union featured on the blog.     Gross 2020 Gross 2019 Change Change % 1 Luxembourg €2,142.00 €2,071.00 €71.00 3.31% 2 Netherlands €1,636.00 €1…

About 2 years ago I started a simple, so-called 52 Week Money Saving Challenge. The rules for this challenge are very simple - to deposit in the first week one euro, in the second week - two, third week - three, etc. The amount after each week continues to grow, up to the last week of the year, when it is 52 euros. Back in 2018, I was saving in the jar, but I must admit I dropped the challenge in after some 6 months, as we were relocating from country to country and I didn't have any more…