We await with interest each year the claims statistics from the leading protection providers in the Irish market. Irish Life annually issue very insightful and detailed information about their claims (as do other providers), and we’ve taken the opportunity to dig a little into the claims data from their Retail division for 2021.

This is the first in a series of articles that will be aimed at people at different stages of life. Today we're starting with those in their younger more carefree years, but probably with an eye on financial planning - the 30 somethings! For this group there are lots of competing priorities – a house to be bought, maybe a wedding to be celebrated or a family to be started. And these also don’t take into account the holidays, cars and social life that are there to be enjoyed too...

The following 7-guidelines from legendary investors can help us refocus our attention on what matters when investing long-term.

Global GDP has grown massively over the last 50 years, but not all countries experienced this economic growth equally. Ireland did pretty well on this metric...

Everyone assumes it won’t happen to them. But from history we know that not everybody is so lucky.

There are winners in recessions too...

Time and tide wait for no man...

Scammers use technical tools and psychological tricks to get your personal information, with the aim of stealing from you.