Irish taxpayers, still smarting from the shock of massive cost-overruns on the proposed new national children’s hospital, now face the prospect of another budgetary black hole, this time in financial services.
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Volatility, old age, and investment paralysis.
The pension market in Ireland is continuing its inexorable shift from the traditional defined benefit (DB) to a defined contribution (DC) landscape
Picking the right team: value or growth?
Given the maturity of this economic and market cycle, investors may wish to shift towards value stocks to increase portfolio resilience
Women Need to Know their Pension Position!
In Ireland, women receive pensions that are 26.1 per cent lower than men’s, according to a European Commission report* from 2018.
The outlook for the Irish commercial property market
In this article we discuss the outlook for the Irish commercial property market and the benefits of diversifying your property investments internationally, over the long term.
Planning for the Cost of Family Education
When building financial plans for families, we tend to find that educating children ranks highly on the list of priorities.
“It’s great to get a dividend cheque in the post”
My Dad, who is now in his 80s, still loves it when he gets a dividend cheque in the post, especially if the cheque has grown by double digits compared to the previous year.
The Great Confluence
If you have spent anytime time following Emerging Markets you will likely know that the key growth story in the developing world is the emergence of the middle class consumer.
Missing a trick
Look up the International Monetary Fund/World Bank table of reserve assets and today’s Western investors might get something of a surprise – gold sits at the very top of that list.
Thank you Jack Bogle!
Even if you’ve never heard of Jack (John really) Bogle you have a lot to thank him for.
Will there be a US recession in the next 12 months?
After a long period of relative calm, investors have faced more volatile markets in recent months. In Q4 last year, the S&P 500 came within 63 basis points of a technical bear market, dropping -19.37% from a high of 2,930 in September to a Christmas Eve low of 2,351. Risk assets have since recovered ground, […]
29 reasons not to invest in the stock market
Over the past three decades there have been plenty of shocks to dissuade people from investing. Our data shows what happened after each event.
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