Protecting your Finances

Protecting You, Your Family and Your Future Health and Safety is vital in the construction sector. Protecting your finances is also an important part of your future planning.  The way to protect your finances is to save for the future and…

Taking Control of your Pension Planning

It's time to take control of your pension planning. If you haven’t already started saving for retirement, it’s not too late. The current tax relief available within the pension framework was designed to allow older people save more money. As…

Life After Career

Taking a holistic approach While the role of the financial adviser is to focus on the money, sometimes the planning phase can raise other issues a client has not previously considered. In the pre-retirement financial planning phase, it is…

Attracting and Retaining Staff

The “2018 National Skills Bulletin”, published by SOLAS, makes for interesting reading if you are running a company; you need to know what is in store for the labour market in your sector. If you are a parent with kids pondering their…

What's your financial plan for 2019?

This year, it's time for us all to think about planning for the next 20 years rather than just on the year ahead when it comes to planning for our retirement. At this time each year, I would usually write nine things to do better in 2019…

Tax Relief through Pensions

For most people, paying less tax is desirable. Paying less tax through tax relief schemes is possible and it's a great way to help yourself in the future. It’s that time of the year again when financial advisers and accountants are focused…

The Need to Defuse the Pension Time Bomb

What is the pensions time bomb? In a short, it's the unavoidable shortfall between pension requirements and the State's ability to pay it. Excluding public sector workers, who have close to full pension coverage, the private sector figure…

The need for mandatory pensions in Ireland

If you follow my regular advice column in Construction Magazine, you’ll note that there is a heavy bias towards retirement planning.  As a Financial Advisor for the construction sector, I meet many members of the sector’s two big schemes,…

A Guide to Key Person Cover

Did you know that if you are a business owner, there is a way to protect your business in the event of the death or serious illness of an important member of your team?