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- Making sense of the means test for my pensionTue, Oct 30, 2012 Q&A: I am a separated person who will not qualify for the contributory pension you wrote about a couple of weeks ago. I will be 66 in February 2013 and cannot seem to get any clear answers as to means testing for a non-contributory pension. I have sold the family home to downsize and gather that some of the amount which is invested does not count as part of a means test. Is this correct?
- Me & My Money
Tue, Oct 30, 2012Shirley Lanigan, Author
- A rash of early earnings reportsMon, Oct 29, 2012 STOCKTAKE: WHAT’S with the early earnings reports? Ten days ago, Google plunged after it accidentally released results in the middle of the trading day. Telenor released earnings last Tuesday night instead of Wednesday morning and Dow Chemical, to report last Thursday, inadvertently issued a news release on Tuesday revealing 2,400 job cuts and plant closures. The full earnings report had to be promptly issued.
- State to hit pensions again
Fri, Oct 26, 2012Limiting tax relief on pensions is on the agenda as preparations intensify to frame the Budget - Pension charges punching hole in retirement fundsWed, Oct 24, 2012PENSION FUND charges are eating away as much as one euro in every six (17.4 per cent) of retirement savings in occupational schemes, according to a report on charges published last night.
- Report on pension charges throws light on expensive, opaque business
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 ANALYSIS: There are few shocks in the report on charges in the pension industry, which highlights a lack of transparency, writes
DOMINIC COYLE - What is the exit tax liability on my investment?Tue, Oct 23, 2012 Q&A: In early 2007, I transferred €7,500 of my SSIA proceeds into a once-off PRSA contribution with an Irish financial institution to avail of the Government’s additional contribution and in order to create an initial €10,000 fund.
- Battling credit union over debt repaymentsTue, Oct 16, 2012 Q&A: I’m up to my neck in debt. I lost my job three years ago. My big question to you is do you know anything about people taken to court by their local credit union and how they got on? Or where could I get information on it? My credit union is not very helpful.
- Me & my money
Tue, Oct 16, 2012John Scott, Artistic director of John Scott Dance
- Do pension stamps from 1960s and 1970s still qualify?Tue, Oct 9, 2012 Q&A: I have a query regarding contributory pension. I am 62 years old and working. I paid “stamps” from 1968 to 1972 – 48, 51, 52, 52, five in each respective year. I was rearing children until 2001. I returned to work in 2001 and my recent contributions are: 2001=1; 2002=40; 2003 to date = 52 each year.
- Davy introduces investment platformWed, Oct 3, 2012Davy has launched an online investment fund “supermarket” aimed at consumers looking to invest as little as €500 in a pension.
- Life insurance covers only part of our mortgage termTue, Oct 2, 2012 Q&A: We purchased a house as first-time buyers in 2007 with Permanent TSB. As part of the purchase, PTSB advised us that we would require mortgage protection insurance in the form of life cover to cover the mortgage in the event that either of us died. They arranged the cover for us with Irish Life.
- Me & my money
Tue, Oct 2, 2012Tania Banotti, Ad woman
- Cash for clothes isn't money for old rope
Tue, Sep 25, 2012YOU’VE HEARD of “cash in the attic” or “cash for gold”, but are you ready for the latest money-generating scheme – “cash for clothes”? By selling unwanted clothes that may no longer fit or are simply out of fashion, you could replenish your wallet and maybe make enough to stave off the impact of the forthcoming budget. - Edging ever closer to the Japanese doldrumsTue, Sep 25, 2012 SERIOUS MONEY: IT IS ALMOST four years since central banks in the western world first adopted near-zero interest-rate policies alongside the implementation of substantial quantitative easing measures in an effort to halt the sharp and swift decline in economic activity that followed the acute myocardial infarction that struck at the heart of the global financial system.
- Will stamp duty relief be applied to property tax?Tue, Sep 25, 2012 Q&A: What happened to the stamp duty relief which was supposed to be applied to property tax? It seems to have quietly dropped away.
- Me & My Money
Tue, Sep 25, 2012 Olive Geoghegan , Television presenter/producer
- Accidental trades blamed for volatilityMon, Sep 24, 2012 STOCKTAKE: A SO-CALLED “fat finger” mistake was suspected to have caused some crazed late-day trading in oil last week.
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