[4] With his final term paper De omloopsnelheid van het geld : theoretische begripsbenadering en praktische toepassing in België (English: The velocity of money: Theoretical approach to understanding and practical applications in Belgium)[5] he won the International Scholarship of Flanders-prize and was able to study two years of econometrics under Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

[4] Van Rossem became famous as a stock market guru with Moneytron,[6] an investment company that could offer apparently endless returns.

[7] Van Rossem also claimed that he had developed a model that could predict the stock market and beat the capitalist system.

The biggest success he achieved with his team was third place at the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix with driver Stefan Johansson.

[23] Around the same time he was also featured in his own celebrity comics series, scripted by himself and drawn by Erik Meynen.