Financial Wellness

We all know how to look after our physical wellbeing, but have you considered your financial wellbeing? How do you determine your overall financial wellness? Debt Accrual First you must look at your level of debt. Are you constantly relying on overdrafts and credit cards for day to day life? This may be a red […]

What is the value in a Financial Adviser?

Initially a financial adviser can help you identify your financial needs, recommend products to help you reach your goals and set everything up properly. This is where people think the financial adviser’s job ends. Often our work isn’t always visible to you. It is so easy to get confused by market performance, with factors like […]

Fear of Investing

Many of our clients complain of earning practically nothing for their money on deposit. In the next breath they will tell us that they are afraid of investing. This is because they are afraid of losing any of their hard earned capital. Unless you are willing to take an element of risk, you will not […]

Don’t Panic!

At the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic, we wrote about how time is more important than timing when investing. I have been following a particular investment throughout the Pandemic. This investment was of €100,000 approximately 1 year ago, invested in a mix of funds in order to diversify their risk. The portfolio was a medium […]

Covid-19 and Investments: Time Vs. Timing.

This is indeed a worrying time for everybody. The current pandemic is affecting our lives in many ways. We are going to show you the value of time when investing. We refer to the Financial Crisis in 2007/2008. The following illustration from an article by Aviva shows the value of time after a downturn. It […]