The age of retirement is going to rise, within the next five years it has to. There are several reasons, the most immediate being that ...

I recently enjoyed the company of IPAV lecturer Frank Quinn and during our time together we discussed the Irish property market and mor...

Paul O'Connor of MyHat.ie and PropertyWeek.ie has written up a great post on the Irish property market, the single biggest hindrance in...

I had the honour of being a speaker at a MABS seminar on the 21st of May, it was called 'Keeping a roof over your head' and it was focu...

We have been touting fixed rates for quite some time on the basis that people needed to fix at the time rates were heading for historic...

Banks have a pool of money called 'zero rated funds', this is the money that they hold for which they are paying no interest. Lots of c...

On Wednesday there was a conference in Trinity College Dublin called 'Irish economic policy for the crisis: What next?'. This post is v...

Research carried out by Nottingham Business School has shown that Brokers are the most trustworthy group of financial advisers. The pos...

In looking at any product or service you will often hear people mention 'supply and demand', it is one of the foundations of Microecono...

The changes mentioned in the recent budget will be kicking in soon and it will mean that people are likely to be affected in their mort...

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