Risk assets have seen a broadly positive start to 2021, and while we acknowledgethat it has not been a simple and straight forward ride higher for markets, we donote that the S&P500’s ‘VIX volatility index’ at the beginning of April has tradedthrough its lowest price since before the initial pandemic-led equity sell-off. Webelieve market participants …
26 Mar 2021 Life & Pensions In her recent Money Times article in The Meath Chronicle, journalist Jill Kerby, discussed the increase in claims paid out by Aviva in 2020 for psychological issues. As someone who has worked from home for nearly my entire career – and with no young children to homeschool – the lockdowns of …
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Since our 2021 investment outlook in January, equity markets, depending on the region, have traded flat to slightly higher. While this was not a completely smooth journey for risk assets, when we take a look back at the last couple of months we are reminded that opportunities are constantly presenting themselves within markets if we …
Let us begin our annual investment outlook with a bold statement: 2021 will be the year when the Covid-19 crisis ends. More precisely, despite new variants and mutations of the virus, there is optimism globally that there will be a successful global rollout of safe and effective vaccines by the second quarter of this year …
Qualifying age for State pensions January 5th , 2021. The current qualifying age for all State pensions is 66. An increase to 67 in 2021 and to 68 in 2028 was planned. In Budget 2021, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath announced that the qualifying age for a State pension will continue to be …
State will take up to 30% equity to help finance house purchase under new Bill A new affordable housing plan that will see the State take up to 30 per cent equity in a home with a first-time buyer is set to go to Cabinet next week. The Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, said the …
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Now may be the opportune time to review any retained pension benefits you may have, before these proposals become law. Government eyes more simple pensions and abolition of multiple products Pension savers will no longer be able to access their retirement benefits from the age of 50 under new proposals from Government, which also recommend …
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A Time to Heal….Over the past month or so, we have seen investor sentiment swing down and then up, with relatively large market moves in both directions as these markets continuously attempted to accurately price the risks to either side. While we acknowledge that some risks to the downside still do prevail, we maintain our …
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2020 Chapter 4… The 2020 journey so far has been an extremely interesting and memorable one from the point of view of investment markets and for those invested for the long run. After a very volatile first quarter, in which the world we knew underwent some massive changes in a very short period of time, …
Property developer Danoj Developments last week announced it has secured more than €1.3 million in funding from Lotus Investment Group to support its redevelopment of 133 James’s Street in Dublin 8. Financing for this latest development by Danoj Development was arranged by Seaspray Financial Services, a specialist financial advisory firm providing corporate finance and investment …
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