OCEAN ARE A RECOMMENDED PENSIONS ADVISER SPECIALIZING IN HELPING PEOPLE TO SWITCH TO MORE AFFORDABLE PENSIONS WITH MUCH BETTER RETURNS. CALL 01 8693400 FOR A FREE FRIENDLY CHAT TODAY Ocean recently released results from an online survey which polled ordinary people asking them about their pensions. For those who had a personal or work-related pension,… Read More
ECB interest rate cut is good news…or is it?
When the European Central Bank governors met this week to announce that its main interest rate was to be cut to a record low of 0.5% nobody was surprised…but not everyone was particularly happy. The rate cut was made against a backdrop of a falling Euro inflation rate currently standing at 1.2% (the ECB generally… Read More
Announcing the Pensions Survey Competition Winner…
Amy Bennett was one of hundreds who completed the Ocean Finance Pension Survey and entered the competition to win a cool ipad mini! Congratulations to Amy and all who participated in the survey which revealed some surprising results about what you think about pensions. KEY TAKEOUTS FROM PENSION SURVEY Only 1% of respondents said they… Read More
Spring is in the air! Mortgage market thawing out
In a recent blog post we spoke about how there were signs of life in the mortgage market with AIB, BOI and PTSB coming out and promising to increase lending for the year. Both AIB and Bank of Ireland spoke of doubling their figure to approx € 2 billion each for 2013 and even PTSB who… Read More
Pensions Time Bomb: 10 reasons why you should defuse it now
Recent talk in the media of €324 billion pensions time-bomb may seem fairly dramatic and may have a degree of scaremongering involved but if you look behind the headlines the basic message is clear. We as a nation won’t be able to rely on the state pension for our retirement income. With the average life… Read More