The idea of the book, was not there originally. It was something that started to grow during the years after I lost her. At first they were simple phrases on paper, memories and lines, in order to deal with her passing. You could see it as a journal, as where I tried to write it away from me, to spend hours on a single sentence, just to confront the memories and write them down. It was my way of dealing with the pain, my way of talking about it. During the years however, these phrases began t...

Renewing Capital Market Supervision addresses the core topics of supervision strategy. It enables capital market regulators and supervision agencies to systematically evaluate their strategies and tactical methods, and initiate improvements. The book's viewpoint is comprehensive and strategic, rather than technical or legal.

This compact guide discusses how to align every-day activity to the regulatory mission, consider the Big-5 approaches to supervision, work on each step in the supervision...

One day I saw the movie "Hector in search of happiness". In this movie, a psychiatrist travels the world in search of what happiness is, in order to be able to make his patients happy again.

His project fascinated me and not long after I had started my own project. For one year I have asked my friends, family & people I met two questions in either Dutch or English, the English ones being "What is your definition of happiness?" and "What to you is love?".

This book contains all the answers I...