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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk. With Aviva Insurance. Now, how difficult or complicated is it to get yourself on a long term and firm financial footing? Well, let's find out with MD of D&G Financial Services, Cian Carroll. Good morning, Cian. Morning, Clare. Thank you for coming in.
So before we think about building wealth, which sounds like a big mountain to climb, I know for many people, are there things that we need to sort out, a foundation that we need to put in place?
Yeah, and I suppose what people probably need to think about when it comes to planning for the future, it's making sure that they're steady in the now.
Chapter 2: What foundational steps are needed to build personal wealth?
And, you know, what are the things that people need to think about? People need to think about, OK, am I carrying any debt? And is some of that debt expensive? Be it credit card debt? Are they in overdraft? Have they got...
home finance or whatever might be in place and then they need to think about have they got a bit of a buffer or emergency fund in the event of something going wrong and you know I think back to you know a root canal treatment and that's a thousand plus another thousand for a crown and you know a lot of people don't have that money straight away in the event of something coming at them that they're not expecting and so it's just making sure that
They maybe build up one or two months of an emergency fund, then work towards clearing down expensive short-term debt. And then they can start planning more long-term.
Well, let's imagine that we have those things done, that the expensive debt is dealt with and that there's a buffer there. So then what do we do to try and slowly build this money for the future?
Yeah, so it's thinking about, well, what's the most efficient thing to do to begin with? And people are leaving money on the table from a pension planning perspective. So it's maybe talking to your employer and seeing, you know, what is the maximum contribution that they will match? they were paying 4% in, their employer would double their contribution.
So that's 8% going in from the employer, but they would match up to 6%. So in essence, that person was leaving their 2% behind plus a further 4% from their employer. So that's really, really a tax efficient way to start planning for the future because for every 100 euro that person puts in, it costs them 60 euro. So really tax efficient way to build a little bit of wealth for the future.
And that's really important. So we talk about building wealth for, From a retirement perspective, but then there's loads of things that you might need to plan for in the kind of medium long term that you'll need access to before you retire. Right.
So like an investment account potentially for children's future education and all the things that cost you along the way when you have kids and have a house that continues to probably need money.
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Chapter 3: How can one effectively manage and reduce debt?
done to it over time there's loads of different things that people need to start planning for kind of more long term and that's where we talk about investing and take as much of this money that sits on deposit in Ireland and get that working a little bit more harder for people more long term.
I suppose you have to have capacity to do all of this planning and saving you know even by you know if you want to increase your pension contribution by that small amount that you mentioned there 2% of your income you have to have that sitting there and you have to be you know have money left at the end of the month to be able able to do that.
Absolutely. And so this is where it's about trying to create kind of, I suppose, a gap between what you're earning and what you're spending. A lot of people are spending every penny and some people don't have any choice around that. Life is very expensive at the minute.
others um have bandwidth to do it but just aren't doing it at the minute and part of the reason for that is people don't prioritize um i suppose enough in terms of making every euro that they earn count i think in my household income every single euro down to the euro is given a job some of that is long-term saving some of that is short-term planning
But if you don't give every euro a job, you just, there's money that's coming in and that's going out and you've no idea what it's going out on. So there's different ways that you can make short-term wins because obviously it's not an immediate result to go and ask for a pay rise and work all the time. So...
what can you do you can look at your big ticket items be that your mortgage be that your home insurance car insurance make sure you're repricing that reviewing those on a regular enough basis because they're the big wins and that's money that you can repurpose for for other kind of long-term plans and then there's some shorter term things and i'm guilty of it at times as well subscriptions that you start signing up for for the new series that's coming out that you don't have that subscription for and all of a sudden you roll into month on month on month and
You know, so it's looking at things that you haven't used for the last couple of months, cutting them out. And that creates, you start to build a little bit of a gap. And, you know, again, I was talking to a client there last week. They're telling me that their household expenditure, it's 19% higher this year than it was last year. No new costs involved.
So you're talking fuel costs, utilities, food shop, etc. So... People need to create that gap, that buffer, because without that, as things become more expensive, they can plan less and less for the future. And all of a sudden you go from your mid-30s to your mid-40s and mid-50s and then you're talking retirement and it feels more and more daunting.
And what is an accessible way to assess your monthly or weekly outgoings? How do you do it?
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Chapter 4: What strategies can help in planning for long-term financial growth?
And we all need to sit down and do an audit, don't we, of what we're spending. But if you want to kickstart your wealth boost. The Clare Byrne Show with Aviva Insurance. Weekday mornings at nine on Newstalk. Conversation that counts.