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The Week Ahead 26.02.2024 Check out the Unio Weekly View for the week beginning the 26th February, 2024. The Unio Weekly View: Week Beginning 26th February 2024 from Unio on Vimeo. This week in summary: As inflation concerns subside, last week saw European natural gas prices fall back to pre-energy crisis levels. Prices fell to…

What is happening in China? What is happening in China? We enjoyed a very thought provoking Unio Global Macro Council meeting earlier this week where the focus was geo-political risk. Fascinating insights were provided by Sir Sebastien Wood, KCMG, from Schroders and Chris Kushlis, T.Rowe Price who both provided refreshing insights on this topical subject.…

The Week Ahead 29.01.2024 The Week Ahead 29.01.2024 Check out The Unio View in 60 Seconds, our weekly commentary on market and macro data. Overall it was a positive week in markets, with global equities up 1.5% largely attributable to the strong GDP data released in the US for Q4. US equities across the board were…

Top Five Investment Themes 2024 29 January 2024 The Unio View 2024 2024 will be an Olympian year in many respects, in terms of the number of people globally who will vote, a record debt burden, the growing need that climate damage puts on us to invest responsibly, and the mind-boggling advances in technologies like…

The Week Ahead 08.01.2024 The Week Ahead The Unio View in 60 Seconds: Week beginning 8th January 2024 from Unio on Vimeo. Earnings As 2024 begins, Q4 earnings season takes the spotlight. The big banks will kick things off with the world’s largest bank, JP Morgan posting their Q4 results on the 12th. On the…

The High Court decision in the O’Rourke v Meadowvale Pension Scheme serves as a cautionary tale, highlighting the risks and liabilities that trustees and employers face if the legal procedures for winding up a pension scheme are not correctly followed.

Auto-Enrolment: Next Steps for Employers  20 September 2023 In May of this year, the joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands published its pre-legislative scrutiny report on the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill. The decision to implement an Automatic Enrolment system is consistent with recommendations contained in the OECD’s…

Welcome to Unio Employee Benefits 17 August 2023 We are delighted to share an exciting milestone in our journey. Unio Employee Benefits brings together the highly successful businesses of Invesco, Acumen & Trust and APT into a single entity, with enhanced advisory, investment, and client solutions. Unio Employee Benefits has 150 staff located in Dublin,…

Legislative & News Update –  February 2023 28 February 2023 We have issued a copy of our latest Legislative Update. This month we cover: IORPS and the State Pension Key Changes in the Finance Act 2021 Lump Sums and Foreign Pension Arrangements Employer PRSA Contributions Pension Auto-enrolment Download We are here to help. If you…