Irish Life

Search commences for €200,000-plus chief executive role in organisation overseeing scheme

Beyond five days’ of statutory sick pay a year, your employer is not obliged to keep paying you if you fall ill

Roscommon native to replace chief executive of 12 years, Paul Mahon

Dublin ranks 19th among top 50 marathons globally, with Chicago topping list in terms of economic contribution, according to new research

Scheme will capture up to 800,000 workers between ages of 23 and 60 and earning more than €20,000 who are not currently part of a pension plan

Primary focus in delayed request for tenders is on charge for managing funds that could grow to €21bn by 2035

‘My Future Fund’ scheme to apply to those between 23 and 60 who earn at least €20,000

Investors can find themselves locked in when market downturns put a squeeze on fund withdrawals

BCP appointed KPMG late last year to advise on strategic options

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

The new HQ will enable the Big Four firm to consolidate its operations in Dublin under one roof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emma and Carol Walls and Aoife McCann spent three years studying to become barristers

Cancer medicine is undergoing a revolution, with scores of new treatments targeting specific tumours coming on stream

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Original figure stood at €180 million when venture was announced two years ago

Health insurers Irish Life and Laya Healthcare are ‘hiding behind’ the lengthy approval process for treatments, say oncologists Prof Ray McDermott and Prof John Crown

Global fund services provider secures space for over 100 additional workers at Dublin 1 development

One in 10 pension schemes has yet to decide on how to comply with new pension rules over five months after deadline

Q&A: You are entitled to clear answers on what you are paying and why. don’t get fobbed off with fast-talking and industry jargon

Deal follows Cornmarket’s 2020 acquisition of EIS Financial Services and purchase of Penpro in 2016