Business
Key Person Insurance Ireland: Complete Guide to Protecting Your Business from Critical Employee Loss
Every Irish business owner knows their company’s success depends on key people. While specific failure rates vary, many businesses face severe financial difficulties when they lose a critical employee, with potential impacts ranging from operational disruption to complete closure. With high replacement costs and recruitment timelines often stretching beyond six weeks, the financial impact can…
If you’re an Irish business owner with an executive pension, you face a mandatory deadline of 22nd April 2026 to transition to a compliant alternative—or face your scheme being frozen. This isn’t scaremongering. It’s the reality created by new EU regulations that have fundamentally changed how pension schemes operate in Ireland. Approximately 150,000 small pension…
Running a successful business in Ireland often means facing a rather pleasant problem: surplus cash sitting in company accounts. Whether you’ve had a particularly strong year, built up reserves, or simply want to make your capital work harder, the question becomes—what’s the smartest way to invest company money whilst staying compliant with Irish regulations? The…
Running a business partnership in Ireland? Here’s something that might keep you up at night: what happens to your business if something happens to your partner? It’s not the cheeriest topic for a Monday morning coffee chat, but partnership insurance could be the difference between your business thriving or barely surviving when life throws you…
Entrepreneur relief will reduce the amount of Capital Gains Tax you have to pay in relation to selling your business.
Face to face contact has always been something we very much believe in when dealing with our clients. On Thursday 13th of October, Colin and Nick ventured south to warmer climates to meet with clients in Southern Africa. If you have not been contacted and would like to meet with us, or have any family, colleagues…
Many of our clients will already be familiar with the Novia Global investment platform, which we are currently implementing to replace many existing client portfolio structures. A number of clients will already be aware of the advantage of having an investment platform in place, having reaped the benefit of adopting such structures into their portfolios previously, through…
For many clients who hold the Old Mutual bonds (previously Skandia), with the forthcoming restructure of the Old Mutual Group, the International arm based in the Isle of Man will shortly become ‘Quilter International.’ This will only take place however after the managed separation has been completed later in 2018. For those clients who also…
OpesFidelio Ireland is delighted to welcome Colin Hudson back to work with the team in the Bray office. Some clients will remember Colin from a number of years ago when he assisted in the project with the Old Mutual Wealth platform. Having gained experience working in Dublin within various industries over the last number of…
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Opes Financial Planning Ltd
12, Parklands Office Park
Southern Cross Road
Bray, County Wicklow
Ireland, A98 WF95
We are conveniently located on the Southern Cross Road between Bray and Greystones which can be accessed via junction 7 of the N11.
This is ideal for servicing clients from the surrounding South Dublin, Wicklow and greater Leinster areas.
Directions:
Our office is situated 20kms south of Dublin, just beyond Bray in Co. Wicklow. Take the M50 southbound onto the N11 then take Exit 7, the Bray/Greystones exit and follow signs to Greystones. We are on the right near the end of the Southern Cross road leading from the N11 to the Greystones Rd.
OPES FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED
OPES FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
OPES FINANCIAL PLANNING LIMITED (Company No 456044)
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