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Investing when interest rates are low – the update

Submitted by Killian Nolan | Investment Manager RaboDirect on Thursday, 22 October 2009 | Category: Investments

I was part of an internal training session recently and the chat from our call centre was that we’re receiving an ever increasing amount of calls from customers looking for alternatives to deposit accounts - hardly surprising really given the significant drop in headline rates available to customers.

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Ask Jill Kerby a Taxing Question!

Submitted by Jill Kerby | The Sunday Times on Monday, 19 October 2009 | Category: Taxation

My first RaboDirect e-Zine column – all the way back in the heady boom days of June 2005 – was about paying yourself first – making sure that you see the merits of your labour before the Revenue, the landlord, banker, butcher or baker gets their share of your money. I still think it’s a good piece of advice, one that involves saving and investing part of your income, no matter what your circumstances; it’s as much a state of mind as it is a state of your earnings.

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RaboDirect are making pensions even easier.

Submitted by Gina McCrudden | Investments Marketing Manager RaboDirect on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 | Category: PRSA Pensions

Pensions might have taken a bit of a beating in the press recently but safeguarding your retirement is still very important so RaboDirect have teamed up with Zurich Life to give PRSAs the straight talking treatment and make pensions available end-to-end online. I don’t want to sound like I’m boasting, but just thought I’d mention we’re the only retail bank in Ireland to offer that.

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