US President Thomas Jefferson advised that you should never spend money before you have it – of course, that’s much easier said than done. The Coronavirus has scuppered many plans and goals over the last two months and may well have a lasting impact on our future but...
INVESTING FOR A GRANDSON Q – My grandson is a bit of a “Jack the lad”. He’s 17, left school, did nt do the Leaving and currently working in a chip shop to fund his weekly lifestyle – pubs and clubs though he has been somewhat curtailed in the last few weeks !...
John Lowe of Money Doctors asks are you fully aware of the costs of raising children ? Have you made provision from existing income plus Child Benefit ( if you can save it ) for your children’s future needs? Comedian W C Fields (died 1946) was not thinking of child...
SICK OF SAVING FOR OUR HOME Q – We have been saving for the last three years for a home deposit and to be brutally honest we are sick of it. No holidays, concerts, eating out etc though Coronavirus is now helping… We have saved over € 23,000 but with the Central Bank...
One definition of the word safe in the Oxford English dictionary is free from risk. In light of asset performances in recent years not to mention the Coronavirus crisis, there is not a single investor who could state their investment is risk-free. Between virus...
NTMA’S BONDS Q – With the stockmarkets in freefall, I am going to invest in the “State Savings” having been told that An Post’s two other investment bonds are better than the National Solidarity Bond. Is this true and are there any other better deposit offerings ? ...
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