Pension consultancy Mercer provides an annual list looking at how retirement is done around the world. Each country is handed an overall scored based on three metrics: Adequacy of the […]
How is retirement savings changing in Ireland?
Mercer Ireland conducted a recent survey on retirement benefits from company paid pension schemes. The survey showed that in 2000, more than 90% of retirements were from Defined Benefit [DB] […]
Should I consider consolidating my pension funds?
The recently published 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey found that 43% of those surveyed see themselves leaving their current jobs within two years. Only 28% plan on staying beyond five years. This […]
What is the Pension time bomb?
For many years, the subject of the ‘pensions’ time-bomb’ and what to do about it has been discussed in Ireland. We have had reports, new products, pension levies but the […]
Pension auto-enrolment – does it work?
Last September, in a speech to the employer’s group IBEC, Leo Varadkar announced the centrepiece of the upcoming national pension plan – auto-enrolment. He told the audience that two-thirds of […]
Pension Poverty
For 25 years, the pensions industry has been talking about the ‘pension’s time bomb’. The Irish population is ageing and from 2016, we will see a large annual increase in the […]