The AIB IPO was never about value. It was always about risk.
- July 31, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning; Investing
Bank shares are back in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. At the time of AIBs IPO in 2017, the media were at pains to talk about value. But few talked about the associated risks. Two years on, what have we learned?
Get your house in order
- July 12, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
Most of us want to stay in our own homes for as along as we can as we age. While that part of your life might seem like a long way away as you reach retirement, my retirement series blog this week urges you to make ‘aging in place’ one of your financial goals.
Transitioning to retirement is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Make this one change then.
- June 8, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
Did your mother ever say to you as a child, “Would you jump off a cliff if somebody told you to?” It’s not just a childish thing – we can still have that compulsion as adults to do what everybody else is doing. This week I’m looking at how you should arrange your retirement finances. Clue: it involves ignoring what everybody else does.
Three questions to ask yourself when thinking about retirement
- May 18, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Estate Planning; Financial Planning; Pensions
A sound financial plan for retirement can’t be designed unless you have a clear view of what retirement is going to look like. Most of us are clear on what we are retiring from, but do we know what we are retiring to? I have three questions for you this week.
Someone should tell Suze Orman to p**s off
- April 20, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
Happy Easter! Budgeting is a hot topic in blogs and the personal finance pages of MSM – but is it a game changer? One so-called expert recently claimed that if you were to save the money you typically spend on fancy coffee, you would amass a tidy sum that many people would be happy to retire on. But she’s full of shi…
What’s his is mine, right?
- March 30, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning; Pensions
60% of women in the US over 65 are single, divorced or widowed. In Ireland, with women living on average 4 years longer than men, and the small but growing divorce rate, there is a strong likelihood that women will need to, for at least some of their later years, live by their own means. Are you prepared?
In search of security
- March 16, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Estate Planning; Financial Planning
Is there any sense occupying a family home which is now surplus to requirements? Nobody is ever obliged to sell, but there are a few benefits. However, what impact will this have on the extended family if that’s the decision you ultimately make?
The definition of insanity? You.
- March 2, 2019
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
A friend did a business course recently and the tutor encouraged the participants to stop what they were doing once a day and ask themselves “Is what I’m doing now contributing to my success?” I like the idea of questioning our logic for doing what we’ve always done. I don’t expect you to do it very day, but you should certainly be doing it every time a major event in life comes along.