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Companies issue shares – sometimes called stocks – to raise money. Buyers of shares (also known as shareholders) own a piece of the company. Shareholders bear the rewards and the risks of the ups and downs in the share price.
After a bumpy first quarter, the markets staged a good recovery from April to June. If you stayed invested, or kept on investing, you’ll have benefitted from a strong uptick over the last three months. There are two big themes
An Approved Retirement Fund, or ARF, is a pot for your pension money after you retire. When you retire, the pension fund(s) you have paid into (perhaps an executive pension, a personal pension, or a PRSA), are available to you.
At Moneycube we want to help people take control of their savings. But that doesn’t mean you should pay much attention to the ups and downs of the stock market, or bother checking your investments every day. Here’s why –
Research by UK investment experts Hargreaves Lansdown earlier this year found that investments by their female customers had outperformed those by men by 0.81% over a three-year period. If that trend continued over thirty years, Hargreaves calculated, the women’s savings
At around €27 billion, Ireland’s largest listed company, CRH, represents around 0.03% of the market value of global listed businesses. Clearly, if you limit yourself to investing in Irish market, you are accessing only a tiny proportion of what’s out
When it comes to investing your money in companies, there are two main approaches. You can buy company shares directly, or put your money into a fund which does the work for you. Read on to discover what’s right for
An Approved Minimum Retirement Fund, or AMRF, is a pot for your pension money after you retire. Update Jan 2022: ARMFs were effectively abolished by the government from 1 January 2022. In practice, it’s very similar to an Approved Retirement
We all feel that we should have done more to build up our savings and retirement plans. But what’s important is making a start today, not worrying about missed opportunities in the past. The reason for this is compounding –
One of the best ways to invest your money is to choose solid investments and then leave them alone, to let time do its work. Here’s Moneycube’s 5-point plan for Irish investors who want to ‘buy and forget’. 1. Keep
Are your money plans financially fit? Here’s Moneycube’s one-minute financial health check-up on your investments. Take the pulse of your investments This spring has seen a marked rise in volatility in the markets. That will create winners and losers. Do
Around 19,000 people move to Ireland from the UK to live each year. If you’re one of them, here’s our guide to the big questions when it comes to sorting the investments and pensions you’ve already built up abroad. Can
