The Value of Planning Ahead and Making Informed Decisions About Your Finances
Interview with Paddy Delaney from Informed Decisions.
What is your background briefly?
I learned the value of money from a young age; working in shops, bars, restaurants, building sites from 14 years of age during school holidays. I always enjoyed numbers and working with people. After a college degree and a few years in retail management, I fell into Financial Services in 2004. Developed my skills over 14 years in various financial roles.
The more I saw the more I found the end client often sits way-down the food-chain for a lot of advice firms. I felt compelled to establish a new way of doing financial advice. So in 2018 I established a boutique no-nonsense firm, Informed Decisions, in order to deliver advice the way I believe it should be done.
Planning Ahead, Making Informed Decisions About Finances
Does it seem like a logical background to what you do now?
It has been a somewhat meandering path but I feel I found my ‘purpose’ now yes! For many years I felt a desire to pursue my own path, and to work on my own terms, but I was not clear on what I wanted that path to be. Once I got that clarity it helped shape what I do now, utilising the knowledge and skills learned over the past 20 years in various finance roles.
As any business-owner will affirm, it took a lot of hard work, planning, learning and research to build Informed Decisions. I am now in the position where my services are in demand, I get to work with people I enjoy, and get to use skills and knowledge to help them capitalise on their business success. And I get paid to do it – what’s not to love.
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1 min pitch for what you are doing now?
I work with business owners who are serious about planning for retirement. We develop a strategy to build their retirement pots, and structure their business to support that. As one of Ireland’s only truly Independent Financial Planners I love what I do, and the select number of clients we work with. In addition, I have been creating and producing Ireland’s multiple award-winning Finance Blog & Podcast every week for the past 3 years.
Why do you think it is such a powerful idea?
The world is changing, no longer will business owners take sales-people masquerading as financial advisors at face value. There is a huge demand for truly independent fee-based advice and working in partnership with an advisor – that’s the gap we fill at Informed Decision. People thrive unbiased information and guidance, and between the Blog, Podcast and Planning we deliver that.
How can people find out more about you & your work?
Anything else you’d like to add / we should have asked?
Through Informed Decisions, we are on a mission to inch the world forward – trying to play our part in improving outcomes for people across the country – sharing in our successes – donating to charities – and having a ball in the process. So grateful to be able to do so.
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