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Personal details
Your age: 35
Your spouse's age: 35
Number and age of children: 1 child 1 month old
Income and expenditure
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 67,700
Annual gross income of spouse/partner: 65000
Monthly take-home pay: 7100 (after wife pension and her 250 AVC)
Type of employment ā Public Servant. Old pension scheme. Wife Private Sector
In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving?
Saving
Summary of Assets and Liabilities
Family home value: 520,000
Mortgage on family home: 238,000
Net equity: 282,000
Cash:
Defined Contribution pension fund:
Company shares :
Buy to Let Property value: n/a
Buy to let Mortgage: n/a
Total net assets:
Family home mortgage information
Lender: AIB
Interest rate: 2.1%
Type of interest rate: fixed
If fixed, what is the term remaining of the fixed rate? 3 years left on 5 year fixed
Remaining term: 23 Years
Monthly repayment: 1090 and we overpay 300 each month so this payment comes down by a euro or two. Hoping to pay off mortgage a lot sooner than 23 years.
Other borrowings ā car loans/personal loans etc
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes
Pension information
Value of pension fund: Wife Pension: 60k 5% and company matches with 7.5% and she has AVC 250 per month.
Other savings and investments:
80,000 (2 years @ 3% per year matures Nov 2025)
40,000 ( 1 year @ 2.5% on year matures Nov 2024)
5,000 (revolut instant access savings 2% AER)
4000 Prize Bonds
27000 ( split across three AIB online saver accounts that I increase by 1000 a month till its get to 12K)
Other cash: 35000 current accounts making no interest
Credit Union: 3000
Investments: 1800 in degiro to play around with
Total Cash: 196,000
Other information which might be relevant
Life insurance: We have Mortgage protection
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
We have been meaning to set up a meeting with a financial advisor but said we would give this a go first to flesh out some ideas and maybe get some guidance. As you see from above, we are in a decent position with our mortgage and have plenty of savings stored away. We have our savings spread over too many accounts in my opinion and would like to know how to get it working better for us.
The main upcoming costs we have is obviously our child (and hopefully one or two more in the future). My wife would like to upgrade to a more suitable car in next few months so we are budgeting around 15/20k for that. We also have a bit of work to do in our house and garden and again would budget around 15/20k for this also.
We have both been relatively risk adverse and always saved in the big banks or state savings where there was no risk so have little to no knowledge on any other financial products available. Should we be seeking out these products or perhaps using our savings to heavily pay down our mortgage quicker?
We would also like to save our child benefit as it is paid into us and so is there a ideal way to do this for our child. Do we set their own account up or just use one of ours and transfer it to them later in life? Is their inheritance issues with this?
As a public servant (education) Iām not sure if I should be doing more regards my retirement as I will reach full pension at 40 years service and have 13 years done. Does an AVC make sense in my case? I am also very keen to get some form of salary protection set up but it has been on the long finger.
Thanks in advance for any help and wisdom.
Your age: 35
Your spouse's age: 35
Number and age of children: 1 child 1 month old
Income and expenditure
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 67,700
Annual gross income of spouse/partner: 65000
Monthly take-home pay: 7100 (after wife pension and her 250 AVC)
Type of employment ā Public Servant. Old pension scheme. Wife Private Sector
In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving?
Saving
Summary of Assets and Liabilities
Family home value: 520,000
Mortgage on family home: 238,000
Net equity: 282,000
Cash:
Defined Contribution pension fund:
Company shares :
Buy to Let Property value: n/a
Buy to let Mortgage: n/a
Total net assets:
Family home mortgage information
Lender: AIB
Interest rate: 2.1%
Type of interest rate: fixed
If fixed, what is the term remaining of the fixed rate? 3 years left on 5 year fixed
Remaining term: 23 Years
Monthly repayment: 1090 and we overpay 300 each month so this payment comes down by a euro or two. Hoping to pay off mortgage a lot sooner than 23 years.
Other borrowings ā car loans/personal loans etc
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes
Pension information
Value of pension fund: Wife Pension: 60k 5% and company matches with 7.5% and she has AVC 250 per month.
Other savings and investments:
80,000 (2 years @ 3% per year matures Nov 2025)
40,000 ( 1 year @ 2.5% on year matures Nov 2024)
5,000 (revolut instant access savings 2% AER)
4000 Prize Bonds
27000 ( split across three AIB online saver accounts that I increase by 1000 a month till its get to 12K)
Other cash: 35000 current accounts making no interest
Credit Union: 3000
Investments: 1800 in degiro to play around with
Total Cash: 196,000
Other information which might be relevant
Life insurance: We have Mortgage protection
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
We have been meaning to set up a meeting with a financial advisor but said we would give this a go first to flesh out some ideas and maybe get some guidance. As you see from above, we are in a decent position with our mortgage and have plenty of savings stored away. We have our savings spread over too many accounts in my opinion and would like to know how to get it working better for us.
The main upcoming costs we have is obviously our child (and hopefully one or two more in the future). My wife would like to upgrade to a more suitable car in next few months so we are budgeting around 15/20k for that. We also have a bit of work to do in our house and garden and again would budget around 15/20k for this also.
We have both been relatively risk adverse and always saved in the big banks or state savings where there was no risk so have little to no knowledge on any other financial products available. Should we be seeking out these products or perhaps using our savings to heavily pay down our mortgage quicker?
We would also like to save our child benefit as it is paid into us and so is there a ideal way to do this for our child. Do we set their own account up or just use one of ours and transfer it to them later in life? Is their inheritance issues with this?
As a public servant (education) Iām not sure if I should be doing more regards my retirement as I will reach full pension at 40 years service and have 13 years done. Does an AVC make sense in my case? I am also very keen to get some form of salary protection set up but it has been on the long finger.
Thanks in advance for any help and wisdom.