Moneycube
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Moneycube is a Dublin-based online investment platform founded in 2016. Its mission is to make investing accessible and affordable for everyone. The Moneycube blog covers a variety of topics related to investing, such as market trends, investment strategies, and personal finance.
Moneycube
21h ago
I have €300k in cash and want to put the money to work in the short term until I have a longer term plan. Clearly there is little interest to be had from the Irish banks. I have heard about money markets and government bonds but don’t know access them. What low-risk options are out ..read more
Moneycube
21h ago
Most people let retirement happen to them. Typically, it happens following a big birthday. But it doesn’t have to be that way. These days, our jobs are often shorter in duration, and careers more flexible, with several iterations. There’s much more opportunity to control the time you’ll retire. So what would it take to be ..read more
Moneycube
1w ago
Auto-enrolment – the practice of automatically signing up workers to pay into a pension – is coming to Ireland – likely next year. There’s no doubt it’s a positive development for the people of Ireland, and the affordability of pensions in the decades to come. Legislation to make it happen is inching through the Oireachtas, and ..read more
Moneycube
3w ago
Zurich Prisma funds are one of the best-known multi-asset ranges in Ireland. Against comparable funds, they are consistently at or near the top of their peer group. In fact, around 100,000 people in Ireland have invest in Prisma. So what are Zurich Prisma funds, how do they perform, and should you invest in them? What ..read more
Moneycube
1M ago
Is the stock market getting more volatile? Or does it just seem that way? And what should you do about it? There’s no doubt the 2020s have been chock-full of shocks so far. We might have hoped for a roaring twenties… in fact we’ve had pandemics, war, and shortages driving inflation. For sure, the world ..read more
Moneycube
1M ago
I keep reading that a system for automatically enrolling workers in a State pension system is imminent, but it never seems to arrive. As a result I’ve held off starting a pension until auto-enrolment is available – is that wise? I’m a top-rate taxpayer in my late fifties, so paying 52% tax plus PRSI and ..read more
Moneycube
2M ago
For much of the 2010s, investors stuck loyally to TINA. The mantra was that in an era of rock-bottom interest rates, There Is No Alternative to investing in equities. But with central bank interest rate hikes over the last three years, investment wags pointed out that TARA had arrived on the scene: There Are Reasonable ..read more
Moneycube
2M ago
Receiving an inheritance can be life-changing. It can be unexpected, of uncertain timing – and can come with a lot of emotion attached. A lot of people feel an obligation to ‘do the right thing’ when considering how to invest an inheritance. But what’s the right thing? If you’ve inherited money – or received a ..read more
Moneycube
3M ago
I have 2 pension funds with my former employer. One is a guaranteed with-profits fund that is paid up since the early 90s. The other is a defined contribution pension that is paid up since I left the job in 2014. I am 60 and wonder is it possible to draw down one of the ..read more
Moneycube
3M ago
China’s stock market hit a five-year low in February. As China celebrates new year, what’s gone wrong? It’s not long since investing in China was the big new opportunity in investment markets. Alongside the west coast of the US, it was a region of the world capable of building trillion-dollar tech firms. It had a ..read more