Financial Health Check Special Report

Journey to financial security begins with the key first step – a pension is the best savings vehicle by far over time

Why financial empowerment is important to all

Scams are becoming more sophisticated as fraudsters deploy new technology bought on the dark web as well as AI tools

Most people use online tools for banking and financial planning but has this left many older people behind?

Survey finds while some people may have been able to do involuntary saving during Covid, it would appear those savings have been eaten up in the past year, mostly due to cost-of-living increases

Important not to allow perfect become the enemy of good when reviewing personal financial planning and budgeting

Community-based repair workshops ‘help people fix broken items for free and learn repair skills’

The earlier you start saving and investing the better, and that means learning about it as early as possible.

For the first time in many years people can get a positive return from government bonds and bank deposits but they are still below inflation

We may be in age of equality but there’s little that is equal in women’s finances, writes Sandra O’Connell

One-to-one advice sessions for employees with external adviser will help get to core of their financial distress

The jury is out but the hope is the Irish economy is in a strong enough position to avoid a downturn

Ireland’s overall Financial Wellbeing score remains in the ‘managing’ segment but slipping towards ‘stretched’