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The big influences on your investment returns
When it comes to investment returns, the list of influencing ...
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Make 2025 your best financial year yet
2025 is fast approaching, and as your head starts to ...
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Employers – have you started thinking about pensions auto-enrolment?
Auto-enrolment is a major development on the horizon for Irish ...
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Life is not a rehearsal
We often hear the phrase “life is not a rehearsal,” ...
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Retirement – There’s more to think about than money
When you think of retirement, what comes to mind? Is ...
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How to improve your financial mindset
The most famous of all investors, Warren Buffett once said, ...
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Claims – the whole purpose of insurance
Sometimes when it comes to life assurance and cover for ...
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The power of a regular review
You might be wondering if you need to bother reviewing ...
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Separation – reduce the financial turmoil
Ending a marriage is usually a really tough time. There ...
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The Upsides of Building Wealth Slowly
Maybe it’s a stage in life that you get to, ...
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The value of professional financial planning
OK, we don’t want to blow our own trumpets, but ...
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Estate Planning – thinking of others…
As our clients progress through their financial lives, we see ...
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4 areas to plan for retirement
The word retirement conjures up different thoughts for each of ...
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How to cut your upcoming tax bill
So here we are again, digging around for eligible receipts ...
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So you want to invest in line with your values?
ESG Investing is here to stay. This is being driven ...
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Make your future goals in life a reality
“It’s not just about the money” is a phrase I ...
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Risks are a key feature of investing
When we’re designing an investment portfolio for our clients, we ...
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What can we learn from the past decade?
Do you remember 2013? It sounds quite recent, but then ...
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5 valuable financial tips to give to your children
Money management is a crucial skill that every child should ...
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Want to give €500,000 to your family tax free? Here’s how…
Picture the scene – I hope it applies to you ...
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Time to tighten the belt?
The cost-of-living crisis is starting to bite for lots of ...
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The great new wealth extraction opportunity for business owners
Apart from the volatility in investment markets and everything else ...
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Stay financially fit in 2023
As 2023 gets into full swing, we’re all receiving a ...
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Financial planning in your 70’s
In this final instalment of our age-related articles, it is ...
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How much is enough?
A conversation that often arises with clients is around how ...
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Financial planning in your 60’s
This month it’s time for the latest in our series ...
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Financial planning in your 50’s
This is the latest in our series of articles that ...
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Why everyone needs income protection
Let’s face it, Income Protection is somewhat of a grudge ...
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Will you leave a financial windfall or a mess when you die?
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “in this world nothing can ...
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Financial planning in your 40’s
In our last newsletter, we wrote about what’s important financially ...
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What’s important financially, when in your 30’s
This is the first in a series of articles that ...
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Claims sit at the heart of what we do
We await with interest each year the claims statistics from ...
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Beware your Investment Biases
We wrote in January about “Staying out of your own ...
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It’s not only The Tinder Swindler who will try to scam you
There’s been a lot of media talk over the last ...
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Focus on the big picture
Let’s make it a real resolution in 2022 to focus ...
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Stay out of your own way
We’ve seen quite a lot of volatility in investment markets ...
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How’s life?
No, no, no – really how’s life? We’re not saying ...
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What are your financial needs now?
We spend our days helping clients to plan their financial ...
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How will you reduce your tax bill?
Tax is a necessary evil. If we want to live ...
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Is it time to get your money off deposit?
Are we finally getting back to normal? It’s great to ...
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Cohabiting is not always a walk in the park
We decided to write about this topic after listening to ...
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What have we learned from living through the pandemic?
We’re currently doing a lot of planning work with clients ...
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Don’t lose track of your unclaimed pensions
OK we admit – this may not sound like the ...
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What impact has Covid had on claims figures?
We  were wondering recently about the impact that COVID has ...
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Three things to know about Evidence Based Investing
Evidence Based Investing (EBI) is gathering more and more supporters ...
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What can we learn from Warren Buffett?
Where do you start with Warren Buffett? Widely recognised as ...
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Don’t forget to look after Number 1
We are fortunate to work with quite a number of ...
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5 simple tips for a post-pandemic reward
Pretty much all of our conversations these days open with ...
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Tell me more about Ethical Investing
Ethical investing refers to the practice of using one’s ethical ...
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When did you last stress test your finances?
2020 has been a year of great uncertainty. Of course ...
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What’s all this about Investment Behaviours?
It’s not an easy ride for investors today, when you ...
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What to do if your retirement funding is falling short
Look, it happens regularly… people realise that with their current ...
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It’s time to review your spending after Lockdown
A huge amount of the time we spend with our ...
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The purpose of insurance is to pay claims when needed
As we emerge from lockdown and the world is getting ...
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Is it time to rethink the importance of money?
As economies around the world start to cautiously emerge from ...
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Covid and your money have a lot in common
A recent phone conversation with a client triggered this article, ...
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Get your life cover in place when you don’t need it
Experience in the life assurance industry shows that most life ...
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Marriage separation – getting your financial ducks lined up
A marriage breakup is usually a traumatic time. Very significant ...
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What does ageing in Ireland look like today?
We’ve written before about the importance of a very planned ...
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Keep your head when all around you are losing theirs
Lots of factors are currently creating a great deal of ...
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What’s your financial plan for the next decade?
How has this happened? Surely we can’t already be facing ...
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8 important principles to teach your kids about money
In today’s era of consumerism on a grand scale, it ...
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How tidy are your retirement affairs?
As part of our work with clients, one really important ...
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Don’t build your future based on what’s happened recently
Let’s be honest, everyone in Dublin and most people around ...
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We’ll help you plan for life’s events
We came across a quote recently that has really got ...
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What our investment research is telling us
We carry out a lot of research throughout the year, ...
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Investing is about more than money
Traditionally the role of a financial adviser has been to ...
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Claims are what count
As part of our financial planning conversations with you, we ...
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Lessons from a Mexican Fisherman
We’d like to share a story with you that originated ...
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What factors impact your investment returns?
Well there is no exhaustive list for this one – ...
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5 reasons it’s time to review your pension
At the start of a new year and as outlined in ...
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What does your future life look like?
We hope that you have experienced the quiet evolution of ...
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Is it time to save regularly for your retirement?
Paying tax bills can be a challenging time for both ...
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Retirement Planning is about more than money
When you think of retirement, what do you think about? ...
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Is Income Protection really necessary?
Income Protection is sometimes described as the glue in a ...
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Your 70’s onwards – looking after yourself & others
In this final instalment of our age-related articles, it is ...
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Are we all saving enough for retirement?
There finally seems to be some level of commitment at ...
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5 ways we help you stay on track that might leave you wondering!
We are in the business of helping you to achieve ...
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Your 60’s – cruising to the end of your working life
This month it’s time for the latest in our series ...
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Your 50’s – time to build and retain your wealth
This is the latest in our series of articles that ...
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8 Great Financial Goals to improve your Lifestyle
We’re now well into 2018 and we often find that ...
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Don’t blow your financial future in your 40’s – our 10 tips
We recently wrote about why people should be thinking about ...
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Talk like an investments ninja!
With markets having powered ahead in recent years, in general ...
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What are the risks to your investments?
When we’re designing an investment portfolio for our clients, we ...
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In your 30s and thinking of retirement – are you mad?
Well the short answer is no, you’re not mad to ...
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5 ways to pay less tax
Tax is a necessary evil. If we want to live ...
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Financial planning is not about products
In financial planning businesses such as our own, a relatively ...
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Are you a cohabiting couple? Get protection advice!
According to the Census carried out in 2011, 12% of ...
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What’s the story with SME’s and pension schemes?
Small & Medium Enterprises (SME’s) and pensions schemes… they don’t ...
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What’s changed over the last decade?
History teaches us many things. Particularly if we’re looking for ...
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Minimise the impact of divorce on your financial plan
A marriage breakup is usually a traumatic time. Very significant ...
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What’s all this talk about auto enrolment in pension schemes?
You might have heard references in the media to “universal ...
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How well is your company protected?
One of the more important business activities of any company ...
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How much money are you happy to lose?
“Well none obviously” I hear you say. But is that ...
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Brexit, Trump etc. How do you keep your investments on track?
Lots of factors are currently creating a great deal of ...
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What will you leave when you die – a legacy or a tax bill?
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “in this world nothing can ...
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10 ways we can help improve your lifestyle
We thought it might be useful to step back a ...
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Are deposits the answer to market fluctuations?
We understand that building an investment portfolio that meets your ...
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How much control do you have of your retirement plan?
The government, pension providers and financial advisers such as us ...
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What Income Protection is and what it is not
As financial advisers helping our clients to build a better ...
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