Retired civil servant Ger Frits organizes personalized funerals for those who die alone in Amsterdam, including a chapel, flowers, music, and a poem by respected Dutch poet Frank Starik. Frits carefully chooses a theme and escorts each person to their final resting place, while Starik believes funerals are a person’s time of reckoning. In contrast, […]
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the first official stock exchange, also pioneered the trading of derivatives. It remains an important player in the regional trade of financial products, including the AEX index. It merged with Paris and Brussels in 2000 to become Euronext Amsterdam. The Amsterdam stock exchange is a historical financial stock market in the […]
