No discount for Rolls-Royce clients, but four years free service

Rolls-Royce customers should not expect a big discount on their purchases. Rolls-Royce offers free car maintenance and all car parts are covered by the manufacturer for the first four years. Therefore,most Rolls-Royce owners buy a new car every four years. This promotion profits Rolls-Royce because their cars don't require much maintenance.

Mohamed Massini

Make youth movement - banks!

A few weeks ago I, as financial responsible of VKSJ Sint-Paulus, was beeing confronted again with a great lack in this country: banks for youth movements. It was the fifth time that I (together with a few other people) was invited to our bank, again for more than 10 signaturesand a lot of questions. The banker was very confused by the 10 accounts with each an other weird name (for example: kim, zep, sloebers,...) and another a accountholder. A lot of paper and signatures were spilled and we left the banker with a stressful head and a lot of work. So if you're looking for a niche, this is an option: develop a banking system were youth movements can easily get more than 2 accounts, change from accountholder, get a low charged insurance,...

Source: own experience

Melissa Matheussen

Will the stock market crash again?

Almost everyone in the world thinks that the crisis is over and the economy is recovering, but could they be wrong? Experts think that there is a possibility for a new stock market crash! In time people will realize that the economic growth is not so big as the they think it is and the reasons why companies are doing good is that they are supported by the government, this will let to stock market correction. Not only the stock market will suffer but the whole economy!

Laurens Traens

Bron: de standaard

€5000 for your old car?

Do you drive an old, rusty and bumped car and you want to get rid of it, no matter what it takes? Well, don't! Cardoen offers you a recycling subsidy from at least €5000, variating in some cases to up to €15000, depending on the car you're willing to buy at Cardoen. The only condition required is that you can drive your car to your Cardoen dealer and that the buyer of the new car is the car's owner for at least six months.
For more information, check the Cardoen website.

Nicola Platteau

German shareholders claim 50bn $

The German newspaper Handelsblatt, who had the ability to check information of the claim collector Epic System, counted that the shareholders of their country claim 50bn$ from Lehman Brothers, the Belgians 453million dollars.
Lehman Brothers is the business bank that went bankrupt just at the beginning of the financial crisis, september 2008. In Germany, the greatest creditors are the central bank of Germany, Deutsche Bank and the BdB, for their institutional financiers. In Belgium Handelsblatt noticed the greatest claims were also those from our greatest banks, such as Dexia, BNP Paribas Fortis and KBC, but also some smaller claimers for 'just' some millions of dollars. You can read about it (and find the photo) here.

Wouter Snoeck

source: Belgian newspaper Tijd

Online savings accounts, a good way to economize?

With basic interests on an all time low, everybody is looking for better ways to invest their money without taking too many risks. A very popular alternative for the traditional savings account is the online savings account, but is the profit worth the change?

The answer to this question is yes, the average online savings account offers a basic interest of almost 2%, while the average traditional savings account only offers 1,4 %.

Most people, groundlessly, don't trust the online savings account because it is 'online' and therefore dangerous, but are you willing to take 'the risk'?

Maxime Meulemeester

Source: Netto

Will the high saving continue?

Will the high saving continue?

After ten years of a falling saving ratio, British households' thrift has increased sharply over the past two years (see chart), but will this phenomenon go on?
The fact that people are losing their trust issues with the economy and that they believe their own financial positions to improve, could indicate a stabilisation of saving.
On the other hand, equity and house prices are still relatively low and after having built up high debts, people may want to rebuild their reduced wealth by saving more.
Over all, we can put that people will probably keep up the high saving over the coming year.

Anesa Selimovic