It’s Pensions Awareness Week once again and in a similar vein to last year the pensions landscape, though improving, is still far behind where it should be in terms of usage and wide-scale uptake across Ireland. There is a combination of reasons for this ranging from concerns about a lack …
Acronyms, they are everywhere. Depending on your life stage, profession, or hobbies, you may view one set of letters as having a completely different meaning to that of your son or daughter for example. Our LOL (lots of love) is not their LOL (Laugh out loud), and your POS (point …
There have been many onset issues that have stemmed from the pandemic since it made its global presence known in early 2020. Several lessons have and will be learnt but perhaps the greatest of all lessons will be that life is fragile. Things that we took for granted we can …
As a founding member of the Society of Financial Planners of Ireland I am truly delighted to see increased media coverage of our fledgling organisation. This delight extends not from the ego trip that one might think such a name check might get but from the financial media’s recognition that far …
Occasionally I am asked “How do I know that I can trust you?” The posing of the question is not unreasonable. They may be about to hand over the advice on their investment, pension, life assurance and financing to someone that was, up to a day or two previous, a total …
Were you ever at some event or other which didn’t involve people who worked in your industry and you get asked by people who never met you before: “Well, what do you do?”. As a Financial Planner this question may lead to a number of raised eyebrows when I respond. …
