Webinar – Employers: How to deliver Employee Financial Wellness in your Organisation
Nick is a Certified Financial Planner, Qualified Financial Adviser, Specialist Investment Adviser and the Managing Director of New Beginning Financial Services. Nick leads the Employee Financial Wellness team and is responsible for all elements of the service from...
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The Benefits of Financial Education for Employees
What if I told you that 55% of Irish people consider themselves to be ‘financially literate’*? Would you tip your hat to that 55 % or spare a thought for the 45% who don’t have any confidence when making a financial decision? My concern is greater than that. I am...
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No Surprises – Our Financial Wellness Philosophy
Our Philosophy – “No Surprises”Financial Wellness for employees is one of the newer members of the corporate wellness world but one that is now proving to be the best attended and most popular wellness events in organisations. The reason, I guess, is that every...
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Is It Now Time to Consider Switching Your Mortgage?
Is It Now Time to Consider Switching Your Mortgage? Our Guest Author is Robert Whelan, Mortgage Advisor to Employee Financial Wellness One of the main issues affecting all residential property owners is the interest rate they pay on their mortgage. Are you paying too...
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Supporting Financial Wellness into the Future – Pensions
Supporting Financial Wellness into the Future – PensionsThe mindset of a workforce can have a huge impact on the levels of productivity, efficiency, and quality. All of these are bad for the overall health of the company and its bottom line. Financial worries are...
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What should be included in an Effective Financial Wellness Programme?
What should be included in an Effective Financial Wellness Programme? It can be difficult to ensure your Financial Wellness programme is effective across your organisation with the many facets to consider. From our experience, when assessing how to construct a...
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Beat the Taxman – Top 10 Tax Refunds
“Sure, I’m a PAYE worker, my tax is deducted at source” This is a common response when we advise PAYE employees of the importance in filing an annual tax return with Revenue. Remember, everybody has an obligation to pay tax, but none of us has an obligation to...
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How does Financial Wellness Reduce Stress?
Employee Stress comes from lots of sources. If you are talking to a room of 100 people, one may be dealing a bereavement, another dealing with a relationship problem, another a work-related stress and another a weight concern to name just a...
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How to Beat the Tax Man – Know Your Tax Refunds
Tax can be overpaid. Most PAYE workers regularly review their Health Insurance cover, shop around for motor and home insurance and love a bargain.…So why is it that a lot of individuals are not reviewing what is most likely the largest outgoing in their house, their...
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21 Tips for Financing Your Child’s Third Level Education
If you’re a parent to preschool or school-aged kids, then you’re probably feeling the pressure of funding their education. Primary and secondary school are expensive enough, but college is in a league of its own. So, if you find yourself nervously counting...
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5 Ways to Manage Scary ‘Back to School’ Costs
Your financial wellness can take a serious hit in September when it's time for the kids to go back to school. Indeed, the 2018/19 school year will see primary education costs reach all-time highs. A recent survey by Zurich Life shines a light on the real...
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Why Investing Beats Saving in the Long-term
To save or not to save? To invest or not to invest? That’s the question of the day. But rather than giving you a long-winded weighing up of both options before concluding one way or the other, I'm going to give you my opinion straight-up: You should...
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