More than a third of households have received at least one inheritance or significant gift with the midpoint value of intergenerational wealth transfers standing at €80,200, new figures show. Publishing fresh data from its 2020 survey of housing finance and consumption, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) found that one in five households had received money
Technology enables immediate access to everything wherever and whenever we want it. In many cases, such as staying in touch with friends and family, or learning about world events, that’s a good thing. However, when it comes to investing and money management, my fear is that faster and easier ways of investing will allow people
One of the ways Merriam-Webster defines the word cycle is a course or series of events or operations that recur regularly and usually lead back to the starting point. And when the word vicious is placed in front of it, it becomes a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that aggravates
Banks will be required to keep access to cash services at 2022 levels under a new legislative framework recommended in the Retail Banking Review. It is understood finance minister Paschal Donohoe has accepted the recommendation and that work on the framework will begin next year, with heads of heads of a bill to be delivered
