I dont think its possible for anyone to say that they haven’t heard or read about either of the following two headlines ‘Russia’ and ‘Oil’ over the last few weeks. We are facing an economic situation that is taking the financial world by storm and its impact on both personal and national wealth has been […]

  I came across a recent posting from Samantha Kelly of the Irishbizparty and she was looking to put together some valuable tips for starting a small business. Having recently read a few interesting articles and also being a year into my new venture I decided that I would put together a quick blog to […]

On 14th October 2014, Michael Noonan delivered his 2015 Budget and just over a week later, the Finance Bill 2014 was published. Obviously there have been some changes and there is a lot to digest for individuals around some of the more complicated aspects that people struggle to get their heads around AMRF’s and personal Fund thresholds. Today […]

While it is very important to understand what is going on in the financial markets I think for the majority of individual investors too much information can be a bad thing. Depending on your specific investment goals you need to make a decision on how much information you need to know and how you are […]

There are a few new changes coming into effect from the 1st of January and I think that the new measures will be largely welcomed giving individuals a little bit more flexibility. The most recent Finance Bill proposes changes to AMRF drawdowns as of January. As it currently stands individuals were only allowed withdraw growth […]

In what has been an excellent year for global equity markets, the trend looks set to continue into 2015. The main driver behind equity performance is 2014 is the dreaded ‘QE’ lead by the worlds big two central banks (FED & BOJ) but what has the ECB been doing? There is no surprise that we […]