As I mentioned in my last post, the Money Hacker family moved from Ireland to Canada in June 2023. At that time we had assets in both Canada and Ireland. This post will go through how we decided to centralise and invest our money in Canada and what we invested in. Asset shift Before we … Read more
Well hello again, it’s been a while. I hope you had a nice summer and have been enjoying getting to see loved ones again. I took a bit of an unplanned break from the blog and have been busy knocking things off my personal to-do list. Of note: I submitted my citizenship application! we finished … Read more
See how ETFs compare to Investment Trusts in Ireland.
This post will compare a 20-year investment into stocks and ETFs in Ireland. I will show how ETFs really compare to stocks. On a high level, even though you pay more tax with an ETF, your real rate of return isn’t much lower than stocks as stocks have higher purchase costs. This results in a … Read more
A while back I did a post on all I’d learned to date on investing in Canada. This post will summarise how to invest in Ireland. Investing your hard earned money can be scary! I read up on investing extensively for 2 years before I took the plunge. I suffered from something called analysis paralysis. … Read more
Meagan writes about her current ETF portfolio in Ireland, why she chose the make-up and how to buy ETFs. At a high level, she invests in an All-World ETF, Developed Europe, S&P500 and Emerging Markets ETFs.
A good ol’ pro and con list of many of the investment options in Ireland including real rates of return after inflation, taxes and fees.
In this post, Meagan outlines the make-up of her Canadian ETF portfolio and explains why she chose a split of Global (VVL), Developed Europe (VE), Canada (VCE), S&P500 (VFV) and Emerging Markets (VEE) ETFs.
In this post Meagan explains why she took an investment loss on purpose in order to switch from a high fee managed account to a self-directed one.