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What is Critical Illness Cover?
What is critical illness cover? Critical illness cover is a type of insurance designed to provide financial protection in the event that you're diagnosed with a severe illness. This cover ensures that you can receive a lump sum or monthly payments, which can help you...
5 Easy Steps to choose a financial advisor
5 easy steps to choose a financial advisor Whatever your income, everyone should get impartial & practical Financial Advice throughout their lives. Financial Advisors offer qualified expert advice. Remember, a good advisor has seen hundreds or thousands of cases....
WILL MY WHOLE OF Life INSURANCE INCREASE IN IRELAND?
Some holders of Whole of Life insurance in Ireland are receiving very worrying letters, informing them that their policies have been reviewed, and their premiums increased. In some cases, a monthly Whole-of-Life premium increase can be 680% more than the original...
Budget Planning Tips & Ideas to make your life easier
Budget Planning Tips & Ideas to make your life easier We can help you solve your personal budget woes with our top 5 budget planning tips & Ideas. Planning your finances is not something we every want to sit down and do, but it is really important for organising...
What’s a PRSA Pension Explained
PRSA or personal retirement savings account is a long-term personal pension plan that can let you save for retirement in a flexible way. Most people can get a PRSA pension in Ireland, but it’s especially useful for people with no pension provision.How does a PRSA...
Simple guide to your pension options.
Pensions can be confusing and overwhelming at the best of times. At Greenway we focus on giving clear information to explain what is happening with Pensions in Ireland in 2019. From Census 2016, people 65 years and older saw the largest increase in population since...
Start Financial Planning Today!
Why Financially Plan? Tracking your income & expenditure gives you a road map to follow. Financial Planning allows you to plan for the future. Knowing where your money goes each month, and the savings you can make gives you certainty for achieving your goals. When...
The Self-Employed Guide to Mortgage Applications
SELF-EMPLOYED? HERE’S WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR WITH YOUR MORTGAGE APPLICATION Whether you’re a First Time Buyer self-employed, you’re trading up, or switching mortgages, there are a few extra things to watch out for if you’re also a self-employed mortgage applicant. More...
What Is A Greenway Financial Review?
Getting a financial review is a great way of creating a roadmap or plan for where you want your personal finances to end up.
Mortgage Application Guide For First Time Buyers
Follow our simple mortgage application guide for first time buyers. If you're making your mortgage application soon, or you're still on the path to saving your house deposit, start preparing for your mortgage application now. The amount of time it takes to get...
Managing Your Money
Managing your money is crucial for your success at saving, but what does it mean? Do a search for ‘spending diary’, or ‘what I spent this week’. I would argue that out of the 790,000,000 or so results your search engine will turn up, you’ll get a lot of figures, but...
The Best Mortgage Protection Policy 2019
Which is the best policy? There's no simple answer to the question, but here's how the policies we offer compare. You'll find the best choice for you. Greenway Financial Advisors currently arranges policies with Irish Life, New Ireland, Royal London, and Zurich....
How Tax Reliefs Can Help You Save
Savings can take a while. Don't become disheartened, tax reliefs could be a way to increase your savings quicker. If your savings are building slowly, don't be tempted to spend €4 on a lottery ticket. Revenue might be able to help you supercharge your savings account....
Financial Planning for Millennials
How Financial Planning can help cash-strapped Millennials: There are plenty of times when we wonder if we'll ever feel like adults. Financial Planning is a thing that makes us all feel like kids not sure of what we are supposed to do. If you're part of the 22-37 age...
Is Online Life Insurance Safe?
There have been some discussions in the news recently. Is your online life insurance safe? The Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman released their Overview of Complaints and Digest of Decisions in March 2019. It's a fantastic set of anecdotes and explanations of...
Explaining Income Protection And Long-Term Renting
Whether you think rent is dead money, or a mortgage is lodestone around your neck, the chances are you'll spend a long time renting. A recent article in the Independent says renters are incredibly vulnerable, post-banking crash....
Changing Your Mortgage Protection – Is It Worth It?
Can changing my Mortgage Protection really make a saving? It can. When the newspapers advise you to make a switch, they mention savings of €2,000 to €7,000 over the life of the policy. Obviously, these are averaged figures, with some people saving a little, and others...
Co-Habitation and Mortgage Protection
it's fine to not get hitched... Weddings are extremely expensive. You and your partner made the right choice not to do it. You're building a life that isn't just about one day, and you're very committed. You even have a house together! Co-habitation is fine! With all...
Online Brokers and Mortgage Protection Savings
IS MORTGAGE PROTECTION WITH A BROKER DIFFERENT TO MORTGAGE PROTECTION FROM THE BANK? Online brokers can help make you some significant money and time savings on your mortgage protection. There are a number of key differences between your online broker and your bank...
FUNERAL INSURANCE PLANS
What is a Funeral Insurance Plan? Funeral Insurance can be a number of things. It’s essentially a life insurance policy that pays out on death, with the sum being used to cover some or all of the funeral costs and expenses. Some policies exist purely for over 50...
New Mortgage Protection In Your 50s
What do Generation X and Baby Boomers have in common? You probably got Mortgage Protection before it was cool, like a lot of other things. This means there's a chance you got your policy while it was more expensive too. The cost...
Switch Your Mortgage Protection Policy
That's a brilliant quote! So much cheaper than what you're paying. You should definitely change your policy, shouldn't you? Take a deep breath, and check a few things first: How old is your current policy? - The terms you were given for your original policy were based...
Know Your Life Insurance Options: A Glossary
GLOSSARY OF COMMON TERMS “CONVERSION” This option allows a policy to be changed to a different policy, at the end of the policy term. This can be done without new evidence of health, which benefits older people changing their policies. This option must be selected at...
Fill Out Your Life Insurance or Mortgage Protection Forms
It’s tempting to try to fill out your life insurance or mortgage protection forms as fast as possible. It’s easy isn’t it? Like an exam on yourself, so how could you get it wrong? One little mistake, however, could create big problems in the future. If you have to...
Update Your Life Insurance Policy
Congratulations! That’s brilliant! You got married, had a baby, stopped smoking - there are so many ways that life can change. Do you know that this can affect your life insurance policies too? It is important with these life changes to update life insurance policy. A...
GROUP VS INDIVIDUAL MORTGAGE PROTECTION INSURANCE IN IRELAND
What is mortgage protection? Mortgage protection insurance policies break into two groups. Group policies and Individual policies. There are some serious differences between the two. Find out about Group vs Individual Mortgage Protection Insurance policies in Ireland....
Mortgage Protection & Taking Your Time: Don’t Let Them Rush You.
When you're buying a home, it can feel like the process will never end. Saving, viewings, mortgage applications, and an avalanche of paperwork. Important decisions can be rushed and pushed with biased advice. Mortgage Protection is one of those things that can get...