According to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, there are over 160,000 Irish people directly employed by roughly 700 US multinationals in Ireland. Share-based compensation is a common way for these employers to provide additional rewards to attract and retain talent.
The turmoil of 2020 will leave investors with many lessons. The most significant of those may be that the biggest risks to markets are always the ones we don’t see coming.
We are often asked about the merits of buying back years for pension purposes, and we have summarised the key information in relation to buying back actual years that were worked but previously cashed in.