Sunday, September 30, 2012
Ireland AM covered the financial services ombudsman report
Monday, September 10, 2012
Here’s a bailout worth considering…. f”34k the banks, and start a new one. This is not a novel idea, it’s called capitalism, one of the key things people bang on about is how ‘capitalism has failed’, it hasn’t, politicians have failed by putting national resources behind institutions that scarce warrant the unending support they have received. That we are starting to figure this out only AFTER we have spent all the money, so most of this is about spilt milk, but not all of the milk has been spilt, just this week we blew €600,000,000 on defunct and toxic Anglo (now ‘IBRC’) and on the 1st of October we’ll be blowing €1,000,000,000 on AIB.
In this piece we spoke with Alan and Aisling about insurance, the different types, what is appropriate and at what level. This is normally a dull topic, but it is hugely relevant to peoples personal finances and for that reason it was great to have a chance to put some popular myths to bed about different types of insurance and what is and isn’t useful or helpful.
We spoke to Martin King and Claire Brock (covering for Sybil) about property prices because Moody’s said prices would drop 20% while the ESRI said that prices would likely go up in cities.
Recent surveys have indicated that there is a strong support towards buying a house, a whopping four out of five in a Millward Brown Lansdowne survey thought now is a good time to buy. This is on the back of a recent CSO statistic showing prices have didn’t change in March and in Dublin that they rose.
We were asked to comment on the recent CSO figures which showed that prices are still dropping but that there is perhaps a different dynamic in cities. In Dublin (the only city separately considered by the CSO) house prices have not dropped for two months in a row – actually rising.
We were really pleased to be back in the studio with Sybil & Martin to talk about health and life insurance, in particular some of the peculiarities of both; for instance – did you know that men are covered for pregnancy in Irish health insurance contracts?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We were quoted in three separate articles in the Sunday papers this week.
The Sunday Times mentioned the report we did with MyHome.ie on property prices for investors (here), the full report is available over on MortgageBrokers.ie on the blog (here). Our view is that for investors there is still not a highly compelling reason to get into property.
Also filed in Accountancy, Accountant, Advisors.ie In the Press, Banking, Debt, Insurance, Mortgages, Property, Sun on Sunday
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Tagged bank, dublin accountants, financial planning, financial review, insurance, personal financial advice, sunday business story mortgage, tax advice
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
We are delighted at the announcement of the new Personal Insolvency Bill and while there are issues around it (as there would be with any new legislation); on the main we are satisfied that it is fit for purpose and is a big step in the right direction.
Also filed in ACCA, Accountancy, Accountant, Advisors.ie In the Press, Banking, Credit Cards, Debt, Mortgages, Personal Insolvency
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Tagged dra, drc, fiduciary responsibility, personal insolvency practitioner, personal insolvency trustee, trustee training
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
We were pleased to feature on this story by Paul Colgan of RTE about banking and rates charged by different lenders. He also considered whether or not future ECB rate cuts would be passed on to borrowers.
Also filed in Accountancy, Advisors.ie In the Press, Banking, Debt, Mortgages, Wealth
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Tagged aib, bank rates, financial news, karl deeter, michael dowling, mortgage rates, mortgages, paul colgan, ptsb, rte news, variable rates
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