Are you are a 1970s child and want to know when you can retire? In order to receive the State pension in Ireland, you’ll be waiting until at least 2036. But by making some changes now and taking charge of
Sorting your finances doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to put a plan in place, implement it, and let the benefits flow through. Here are five ideas to make a fresh start with your finances in 2026. Take stock of
Each year, we pick a handful of investment funds available to Irish investors and highlight them on our blog. We’ve charted below how our 2025 selections performed. Interested in our 2026 picks? Click here to read more. 2025 was a
2026 is shaping up as a year which will reward a more sophisticated approach than simply buying the global stock index. The narratives of 2025 – AI acceleration, global interest rate cuts and tariff hokey cokey – are giving way
Auto-enrolment – the practice of automatically signing up workers to pay into a pension – is coming to Ireland from January 2026. The regime has been christened My Future Fund. There’s no doubt it’s a positive development for the people
If your company is like most in Ireland, its accounting year ends in December. And that means now’s the time to think about making a special contribution to your company pension – especially if you’ve experienced a strong trading year.
At the start of the year, we suggested that AI excitement would spread to new markets, that interest rates could rise, and that alternative assets would offer portfolio resilience in a volatile environment. Well, that all proved correct – and
Post-pandemic, Diageo looked like the perfect consumer goods company. The Guinness owner, whose stable of brands also includes Baileys, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker, benefited from a powerful combination of premiumisation, strong global brands and resilient consumer demand. At its peak
The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised interest rates by 0.25%, increasing its key deposit rate to 2.25%. The move was widely expected by financial markets, but it still represents a turning point after nearly three years of steady or
Investor interest in money market funds has become huge in recent years, with the value of the Euro money market reaching €2.1 trillion in March, up 42% in just three years. And with interest rates on the move again, the
Three of the most talked-about companies on the planet – SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic – are preparing to list on public stock markets (known as an initial public offering, or) within the space of a few months. For the first
The last decade has largely belonged to US equities, particularly the technology giants that have come to dominate global markets. Buy a global equity fund and a large chunk of your money ends up in the United States, particularly the
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