Irish Life

How can you make your savings work harder?

Irish people are great at saving but not always as shrewd at maximising returns. Here’s how to improve your financial outlook in the short, medium and long term

Can I cash in my pension to pay off my mortgage?

Personal retirement bonds can allow you more control of pension assets when you leave an employer but they have their own rules

So, you want children. But can you afford them?

The increased cost of raising children is one of the main reasons why people are having fewer of them, says the World Economic Forum

Irish Life has paid €1.73bn in dividends to overseas parent since it was bought from the State a decade ago

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Irish Life pays out €1.73bn of dividends since purchase for State

Payouts eclipse €1.3bn Canada’s Great West-Lifeco paid Government to buy Ireland’s largest life and pensions group in 2013

Closing the gender gap in pensions cannot be put off to tomorrow

Auto-enrolment legislation is a missed opportunity as calls for measures to boost women’s pension funds were ignored

Insurer ‘miserably’ failed family of child with cancer

Irish Life refused small financial respite as child was 16 years old – and refused to pay towards accommodation unless it was for a B&B or a hotel, not an apartment

Women need to work extra eight years to make up pensions gap - report finds

Lower salaries and time out of the workforce mean women’s pension pots are 36% smaller than those of male colleagues

Pensions industry challenges ‘benefit’ of auto-enrolment State contribution

Irish Life says savers do better under existing tax-relief regime and new approach will hit take home pay of lower earners the hardest

National Lottery plans to move its HQ to new location

Funeral for legendary actors’ agent; CRH chief’s home renovations troubles; Phil Hogan joins Irish lobbying register; a financial blow for the IRFU, and a tough job at RTÉ

Grafton Street: What does it cost to rent a building there? It depends which part of it you want

International brands keen to get footholds in Dublin, says real-estate expert, even as business group says planners should broaden options for city-centre thoroughfare

Who owns Grafton Street? Wealthy Irish families and faceless funds control 119 of Dublin’s most valuable buildings

From large pension funds to wealthy private investors, the owners of Dublin’s most famous shopping street enjoy large rent rolls from some of the biggest names in the Irish retail sector

What sort of income can you get from a pension annuity? Finding out is harder than it should be

Some in the annuity sector seems to be anything other than focused on openness and transparency with customers

Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland taps BofI executive amid plan to double revenues

Áine Cornally set to join Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland’s leadership team to assume the role of chief operating officer

Pension schemes face regulatory clampdown if failing to engage on new rules

Final deadline for compliance with stricter and more costly rules on scheme governance and risk management comes at year-end

Irish workers’ sketchy knowledge about pensions could cost them dearly

Pensions in Ireland: Reluctance to accept risk and failure to realise how long your fund needs to last make planning for retirement unnecessarily difficult

Michael Fingleton’s ‘right hand man’ claims he never met or spoke to Michael Lynn

Brian Fitzgibbon says claims by Mr Lynn ‘are all lies’

Pensions auto-enrolment: The huge pensions shake-up that 70% of us don’t know about

First proposed in 2006, auto-enrolment of workers is slated to start in the second half of next year, after years of delays and false dawns

Intercom delays move to new Dublin headquarters as fit-out costs spiral

Irish-founded technology company agreed deal with Irish Life for all 110,868sq ft of offices at Earlsfort Terrace in 2019

Kota closes €5m seed round to help further grow business

Business formerly known as Yonder is seeking to modernise employee benefits industry

Claims up but profits stable at Irish Life Health last year

Insurer has announced two recent price increases citing rising hospital procedure costs

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