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Investing Series Ep 1: Ireland’s Investing Problem

Investing Series Ep 1: Ireland’s Investing Problem

Understanding Money with Eoin McGee vor 3 Monaten

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Irish people are good savers. But are we good investors?

In this special three-part series, Eoin explores Ireland’s
relationship with investing, why we lag behind many of our
European counterparts, and what prevents so many of us from
taking the leap. Across the series, Eoin looks at the scale of
money sitting in Irish bank accounts, travels to Boston to meet
Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Robert C. Merton, and
speaks to experts in the UK and Sweden about how their ISA and
ISK investment schemes work. The series finishes with Eoin
sitting down with Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris
to ask what Ireland’s new investment scheme could look like, how
it might work, and whether it can finally help more Irish people
get investing.

In episode one, Eoin begins by exploring Ireland’s unique
position: we save a lot but invest far less than we could. He
looks at why so much money is sitting on deposit, how inflation
quietly eats away at it, and why investing still feels out of
reach for many people. He then travels to Boston to meet Nobel
Laureate Professor Robert C. Merton to ask what Ireland should do
to improve its investing, and how any new scheme should be
designed.

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