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What size does your pension actually need to be for a comfortable retirement?<\/p>\nIan Brady has today been announced as the next chief executive of financial planning firm Fairstone Ireland, succeeding the firm\u2019s founder Paul Merriman in the top position. <\/p>\n
Merriman, who established the advisory firm \u201caskpaul.ie\u201d in 2016 before it was acquired by UK-based Fairstone Group for an undisclosed sum in 2022, will now serve as its president.<\/p>\n
Fairstone has acquired 20 independently owned wealth management and financial planning firms in Ireland within the last four years and now has over \u20ac4 billion in assets under management, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It employs approximately 240 people in Ireland, and provides advice on investment, inheritance, retirement, mortgages and wealth management to over 70,000 clients across the country.<\/p>\n
Brady joins the firm from Unio, where he served as chief executive for two years before departing in February. He had previously worked as managing director of wealth management at the firm for one year. <\/p>\n
After completing his business studies at University College Dublin, Brady joined Davy in 2004 and worked in the investment financial services company for 21 years, ultimately serving as its managing director.<\/p>\n
What size does your pension actually need to be for a comfortable retirement?<\/p>\n
He described taking on his new role at Fairstone, which is subject to regulatory approval, as \u201ca privilege\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said the group\u2019s chief executive, Steven Cooper, \u201chas set out a clear vision for Fairstone, an advice-led, client-outcome focused, whole-of-market wealth business, with the ambition to double by 2030 across the UK and Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cSteven talks about clarity of purpose, integrity and stewardship, and that mirrors exactly the belief I\u2019ve built my career on: we have no business without our clients. Everything begins and ends with them,\u201d Brady continued. <\/p>\n
Cooper, the chief executive of UK-based Fairstone Group, said the Irish arm of the business \u201chas experienced significant expansion in recent years through the leadership of Paul; and a combination of strategic partnerships, organic growth and continued investment\u201d.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s appointment \u201creflects the company\u2019s commitment to enhancing its leadership team as it pursues its long-term vision for the Irish market,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Merriman said Brady \u201cis one of Ireland\u2019s most respected leaders in financial advice and wealth management\u201d and \u201cis ideally placed to lead the organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Brady has today been announced as the next chief executive of financial planning firm Fairstone Ireland, succeeding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[6842,8139,258975,24195,10471,79,34350,17915,30448,258976,128404,1083,36487,39878,258977,6568,20084,2817,59467,9648,18,39881,205998,39882,179195,1729,33068,258978,10462,30055,39885,34356,25844,19,17,3503,14404,12808,1082,14998,4189,696,39886,39887,27136,180,3888,3110,1220,797,1402,43779,258979,4520,131930,82,5386,5644,699],"class_list":["post-613595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bank","tag-banking","tag-borough-of-economy","tag-break","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-businessman","tag-buy","tag-buying","tag-calculating","tag-calculator","tag-chart","tag-coin","tag-coin-bank","tag-counting","tag-credit-card","tag-crisis","tag-currency","tag-despair","tag-economist","tag-eire","tag-euro-symbol","tag-european-community","tag-european-union-currency","tag-fee","tag-finance","tag-financial-advisor","tag-financial-figures","tag-frequency","tag-gross-domestic-product","tag-home-finances","tag-home-interior","tag-house","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-job","tag-loan","tag-luxury","tag-market","tag-mathematics","tag-number","tag-occupation","tag-paper-currency","tag-paying","tag-pen","tag-price","tag-savings","tag-selling","tag-sharing","tag-shopping","tag-stock-market","tag-table","tag-table-top-shot","tag-tax","tag-tax-form","tag-technology","tag-wages","tag-wealth","tag-working"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}