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Global Wealth

The Republic of Ireland’s Only Chartered Financial Planners, Providing Financial Planning Advice, Commission-Free Investment Management and Retirement Planning Advice

Dedicated to Providing Personalised Investment and Retirement Planning Solutions

Whatever your investing or retirement planning requirements; tax efficiency, environmental sustainability, taking care of your heirs or just the comfort of knowing you are dealing with an experienced professional, at Global Wealth we ensure that our clients receive a personalised service.

As Ireland’s only Chartered Financial Planners, we collaborate closely with our peers in third-party accountancy and legal professional service firms to deliver unique and highly tax efficient solutions for our clients.

Since 2008, we’ve developed an innovative positioning in the Irish market, challenging the status quo of a largely commission-based product sales environment. We put our client’s best interests first and at the core of everything that we do.

Our mission is to change the way people safeguard their long-term financial success by working together to create tailored solutions.

We achieve this by:

Bringing clarity to the the planning process in order to create structure and a strategy based on your needs.

Providing insights into how markets work and how investor’s emotions can be the greatest barrier to a successful investment experience.

Building realistic, long-term expectations of performance and ignoring short-term market “noise.”

Managing the drag on performance, namely taxation and investment fees.

A professional partnership with other professional service firms such as accountants, lawyers and tax consultants.

How Are We Different?

We don’t act as an agent of a product provider, selling financial products in order to earn commissions. We act as our client’s agents, with a personal letter of engagement in common with lawyers and accountants. We are different because we always approach the advice process with the client’s needs at the centre, focusing on improving after tax returns, developing solutions in-house as well as outsourcing in order to solve complex problems for investors.

Whether You’re An

Accountant Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

Accountant

Tax Consultant Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

Tax Consultant

Lawyer Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

Lawyer

Private Investor Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

Private Investor

Looking for objective commission-free investment or retirement planning advice for your client or for yourself.

We offer a tailored approach to financial planning and aim to provide you with a solution that is best suited to your unique circumstances. We look forward to learning more about you.

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Helping You Turn Your Financial Vision

Into a Reality

The Root of Who We Are

Global Wealth traces its history to 2008 when our founder, Marc Westlake, developed a commission-free financial planning business in Dublin.

Our philosophy has always been client-focused, innovative and embodies a willingness to challenge the status-quo. When it comes to investment planning, we’ve always been clear that keeping costs and taxes down is more important than trying to “beat the market”.

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
- C.S. Lewis

Meet Our Team

Your Partners in Financial Planning

Your Global Wealth Advisers

Marc Westlake

Chartered Financial Planner, Managing Director

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Marc Westlake CFP^®, TEP, APFS, EFP, QFA

Chartered, Certified & European Financial Planning Professional™, Registered Trust & Estate Practitioner, Managing Director

Since 1994, Marc has worked as an Independent Financial Planning Consultant and is a specialist in portfolio management, pensions, tax and estate planning. He works hard to provide the very best service for his clients and is tenacious about keeping them on track to achieve their goals.

Marc moved from the UK in 2008 and is the first Chartered Financial Planner in the Republic of Ireland. He is a proud member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and Personal Finance Society in the UK, having been awarded the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning. In addition to his membership of the Life Insurance Association, Marc is also a registered Trust & Estate Practitioner and member of the prestigious Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Working closely with estate planning lawyers allows Marc to assist clients in successfully managing their wealth transfer to the next generation.

Marc earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, politics and American studies from Leeds and Pennsylvania State Universities. An advocate of continued education, Marc was awarded first class honours in the post-graduate diploma in financial planning from the Institute of Bankers/UCD. This led to him obtaining the internationally recognized distinction of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™.

A co-founder of the Society of Financial Planners in Ireland, Marc lectured the Diploma in Investment and Capital Markets at Dublin Business School and is an Associate Faculty Member for the National College of Ireland Diploma in Personal Financial Planning.

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Gerry Murphy

Chartered Accountant, Chairman

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Gerry Murphy FCA, CFP^®

Chartered Accountant, Chairman

Gerry has tremendous experience in industry and financial services and his career as a Chartered Accountant began with Arthur Andersen before entering the financial services. Gerry established the Irish investment management and banking operations of Hypovereinsbank for over ten years before joining Intel as Assistant Treasurer. He also joined the Jacob Fruitfield Group as Group Finance Director as part of the management buy-in team, following the purchase of the Irish FMCG brands of Nestle and Danone.

In addition to being a Chartered Accountant, Gerry is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. He is an independent, non-executive director of a number of internationally owned Irish entities in the banking and insurance industries and is immensely proud of the work he assists his clients with.

Andrew Reeves

Chartered FCSI, Certified Financial Planner™ & Chartered Financial Planner

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Andrew Reeves MSc, FPFS

Chartered FCSI, Certified Financial Planner™ & Chartered Financial Planner

Andrew is a Chartered Financial Planner, Certified Financial Planner and a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. Andrew provides a direct link to the UK in order to provide advice to Irish Residents with UK Assets and to UK Residents with a connection to Ireland.

John McNicholas

Head of Ethical Financial

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John McNicholas

John heads up our Ethical Financial business which we acquired in May 2020 and he has particular expertise in socially responsible and ethical investing strategies.

John is a Qualified Financial Adviser who has taken over the management of Ethical Financial from his father, Ray.
Educated in Dublin in Gonzaga College & Trinity College, John also completed a master’s degree in the London School of Economics in 2010.

He is a Certified Financial Planner Professional ^TM CFP^®

Prior to working in financial services, John worked as a Social Worker and with the ISPCC.

John’s experience and skills enable him to bring a unique perspective to identify and address the financial needs of clients. John is a huge sports fan and played League of Ireland football for a number of years.

Financial Life Planning with Purpose

Guiding you on a path toward a sound financial future is our ultimate goal. By utilizing a team-based approach, we’re able to combine our experience to address your unique financial needs. As we assist you to articulate your personal goals and specific concerns, we’ll continue on a journey toward helping you achieve financial clarity, as well as the quality of life you desire for you and yours.

We use the following systematic consulting process to uncover your most important goals in order to design and implement appropriate solutions.

Our Financial Life Planning Consulting Process

Discovery
Meeting

During our initial meeting, we want to learn about you. This helps us identify the challenges you face in achieving all that is important to you. We’ll examine your current situation, the goals you would like to achieve and how we can maximize the possibility of achieving those goals.

Financial Life
Plan Meeting

We will present our diagnostic of your current situation and our recommendations for how we can bridge any gaps in order for you to reach your goals. This plan forms the foundation for all of our future work together.

Follow-Up
Meeting

When you have multiple investment accounts, it’s easy to become overwhelmed with the amount of paperwork you receive. During this meeting, we help you organize the details. We’ll also answer any questions you may have so that you understand exactly what is happening with your money.

Progress
Meeting

These meetings, which we typically schedule at six-month intervals, provide us with an opportunity to review any major changes in your personal or financial situation. If these transitions mean that we need to make adjustments to your Financial Life Plan, we will do so. We’ll also review your overall progress toward your long-term goals using a Personal Benchmark, which relates to the returns you need to achieve in order to meet your goals and objectives rather than some arbitrary index like the ISEQ.

This meeting is also our opportunity to implement wealth management solutions that may be appropriate for your situation. We will present to you our wealth management plan at our first Regular Progress meeting so that we can prioritize those areas of greatest importance to you and then begin to address them systematically.

A guide to our ongoing progress review meetings can be found here

An Ongoing Relationship To Address Your Needs

This consulting process serves as our framework, but it is only the beginning. To ensure that your family’s most important financial issues are addressed as needed, we also serve as your Professional Wealth Manager.

In this role, we set the foundation of your financial house through your Financial Life Plan. Once this is in place, we address additional components of your financial picture as needed. With your personal wealth management plan to guide us, we focus on four broad areas of your financial life:

1.

Wealth enhancement aims to produce the best possible investment returns consistent with your level of risk tolerance and to minimize the tax impact on those returns.

2.

Wealth transfer intends to find and facilitate the most tax-efficient way to pass assets to succeeding generations, and to do so in a way that meets your wishes.

3.

Asset protection is aimed at protecting your wealth against potential creditors, litigants, children’s spouses, etc.

4.

Charitable gifting and social impact investing helps fulfill your charitable goals. It is most effective when coordinated with the three services above.

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In accordance with your stated priorities, we will discuss these financial areas with you, make our recommendations and engage with appropriate specialist advisers as necessary. Over time, this allows us to implement a complete wealth management solution with you.

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What It Means

to be a Chartered Professional

Our Public Declarations

When selecting a financial adviser to help you with your financial planning it can be hard to know where to start. Chartered status can be an effective way of narrowing your options down, as it provides an independent validation of the knowledge and standards that a person or firm have met. The Corporate Chartered Firm status is seen as being a mark of distinction in the financial planning sector, only awarded following an independent assessment by the Chartered Insurance Institute in London. Global Wealth is the only financial planning business in Ireland that has successfully achieved this distinction. We make a public commitment to upholding the highest standards of professional conduct. As part of that commitment to professionalism, our firm upholds a code of ethics that sets out the standards of behaviour required of people working for our firm.

Committed to Providing Service of the Highest Quality

What Sets a Chartered Financial Planner Apart?

Additional study and qualifications taken to obtain the status, equivalent to a bachelor’s degree with first class honours.
They must pass a variety of exams covering different aspects of financial planning.
Five years of experience within the financial services industry.

Our advisers also hold the Professional Designation: CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional in Ireland, giving our team exceptional capabilities when it comes to guiding you through the financial planning process. As Certified Financial Planner^® professionals, we are bound by a code of ethics, which we apply for the work we do for all our clients.

What We Value Most

Creativity

We are committed to pro-actively evolving our business and creating a better future for our clients in an ever-changing landscape. By embracing innovation and seeking out global best practice, we provide tailored client solutions to achieve the goals of our clients.

Relationships

Connecting with partners, clients and each other drives long-term success. We can only ever achieve truly great things by working together, sharing the same vision and values.

Excellence

Excellence is our passion. The quality of our team directly impacts the quality of our service.

Service

We believe that Financial Life Planning is not just about providing the right advice but also about transforming that advice into reality. Delivering on our promises to our clients is key to our personalised service.

Transparency

We believe in clarity about conflicts of interest and costs. We communicate with our clients and our team in a way that is fair, clear and not misleading.

Code of Ethics

Principle 1

Best Interests of Clients - Act in the best interest of clients.

Principle 2

Integrity - Provide professional services with integrity.

PRINCIPLE 3

Objectivity - Provide professional services objectively.

Principle 4

Fairness - Be fair and reasonable in all professional relationships. Disclose and manage conflicts of interest.

PRINCIPLE 5

Professionalism - Conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times.

Principle 6

Competence - Maintain the knowledge and skill necessary to provide professional services competently.

Principle 7

Confidentiality - Protect the confidentiality of all client information.

Principle 8

Diligence - Provide professional services diligently.

Professionals You Can Count On

With Chartered status, we’re recognized as a firm with wider commitment to encouraging and supporting professional development, providing high standards of services and adherence to ethical good practice.

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Tailored Solutions

Driven by Unique Circumstances

For Professionals

Solicitor Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

As a solicitor, you have your client’s best interests at heart when providing legal advice. Our New Matter review process ensures that this advice considers the relevant financial aspects of the legal advice for a new matter. What’s key is for lawyers to coordinate with financial professionals proactively to offer their clients comprehensive advice that best positions them for long-term success.

Examples Include

Specialist financial advice on divorce proceedings
Inheritance Tax planning
Helping families with succession and inter-generational planning
Investment strategies for high net worth families
Financial planning and investment services for personal injury claimants
Representing a client going through a liquidity event

What You Can Expect

A collaboration and partnership that focuses on the transformation of good legal results to great life results.
An efficient method of addressing the potential financial aspects of each new matter you’re involved with, by taking into account the important issues and facilitating referral where appropriate.

Accountant or Tax Consultant Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

As an accountant or tax consultant, your clients will often approach you for tax planning advice in relation to their investments and retirement plans. Our goal is to assist you to leverage our services to enhance the impact of your tax planning advice.

Examples Include

Assessing an investment portfolio for tax efficiency
A family business engaging in succession planning
Representing a client going through a liquidity event

What You Can Expect

Tax optimized investment and retirement planning and consulting, enhancing the impact of your tax advice.
Promotion of a collaborative, partner-driven service for your clients, focused on delivering benefits and services that address their needs.

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Confidently Plan

for the Future You Envision

For Private Clients

Financial planning isn’t a one-off activity; it’s a journey which spans a lifetime, aligning your personal goals with your money.

We begin with the end in mind, and recognise that you cannot take your money with you.

Financial Life Planning is a process which joins together your money, your values and your personal goals. We don't actually believe that people generally have financial goals, but instead they have lifestyle goals that have financial implications.

For over 10 years, we’ve enjoyed building great relationships with our clients. We work with them year after year to keep them on track, assisting them to achieve all that is important to them.

We believe that two of the greatest risks in life include dying too soon and living too long. Our role is to assess these risks in light of your personal circumstances and develop a plan accordingly.

Through the main financial planning cornerstones of risk management, investment, retirement planning and estate planning, we work with you to build a plan that protects your wealth, your capital, your income, your livelihood and the lifestyle of your family.

We also specialize in working with foreign nationals currently living in or considering moving to Ireland, and in particular U.S. citizens and U.K. nationals.

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What You Can Expect

A customised plan that includes clear, concise recommendations which have been developed in light of your current circumstances and in particular relevant tax legislation.
An understanding of the principals associated with the accounting, tax and legal systems that operate in Ireland and with respect to cross-border planning.
A commitment to regular progress meetings providing a forum to assist you to achieve the objectives set out in your plan with as well as any changes that may have occurred in the interim.
We offer an initial meeting at our offices at our expense. If our service isn’t right for you, it will only cost you your time to find out.
A minimum fee of €2,500 plus VAT applies to all plans. Additional fees may be payable for specific modules (see our costs for details), which can be added initially or over time.
Financial Planning fees are subject to VAT.

Services We Offer to Our Private Clients Include

Scope of Wealth Management

Consultancy Services

Transparent Costs from the Start

Our aim is to always be doing the right thing for you and your finances. We take time to listen to you to understand your values, lifestyle goals and aspirations. Together we create a financial plan which evolves with you over time.

One of the greatest challenges we face when meeting with prospective clients is that we are totally upfront and transparent about all the fees that our clients pay. We have always disclosed Total Expense Ratios and Ongoing Fund Charges (when, until recently, there has been no legislative requirement in Ireland for our competitors to do so), we are able to quantify all custodian, trustee and transaction costs and we also reflect taxes and levies paid by clients in our progress reports.

We do not intend to arrange any contracts with product providers via a commission-based payment as our fees are agreed individually with each consumer via our letter of engagement.

For details of remuneration from Product Producers, see Our Remuneration.

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.”
- John Ruskin

Example: Typical ongoing charges for a taxable investment account of €100,000.

Typical rates for taxable investment account Dublin, Ireland GlobalWealth

For more details, please see our guide Demonstrating Our Value.

Typical Life Assurance contract based on Zurich LifeSave Investment Bond fund specific informational booklet Dimensional World Equity Fund.
Typical Irish Stockbroker based on MiFID II ex-post cost disclosure document.
Note, there would be an additional cost of tax compliance meaning that our solution is unsuitable for small accounts (under €100,000).

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Aligning Your Interests with Unmatched Quality of Service

Financial Planning Service	Base Cost Plan €2,500 plus VAT	Additional Fee
Financial Personality Assessment and Report	Complimentary	N/A
Lifetime Cash-Flow Analysis: Define and help meet your primary objectives	Included	N/A
Investment Portfolio Asset Allocation Strategies	Included	N/A
Co-ordination of Your Total Net Worth: To your objectives including savings, investments and your current money purchase pension scheme	Included	N/A
Life Assurance Analysis	Included	N/A
Review of Deferred Money Purchase Schemes	N/A	€300 per scheme
Review of Deferred Irish Defined Benefit Schemes	N/A	€1000 + additional fee to Actuary
Review of Deferred UK Defined Benefit Schemes	N/A	€1000 + additional fee to a UK pension specialist

Wealth Management Services

Wealth Management Services	Additional Fee
Irish Estate Plan: Including family partnerships / Irish wills / enduring power of attorney and living wills/advance healthcare directives	€1,000 plus VAT
Resident Non-Domiciled Planning Strategies	€1,000 plus VAT
US Citizens and US Planning Issues	€500 plus VAT
International Pension Transfers	€500 plus VAT
UK Financial Planning: Issues including; will writing and estate planning service for UK assets and Irish resident / UK domiciled individuals	€500 plus VAT
Corporate Restructuring: Coordinating with tax consultants, lawyers and accountants as necessary to restructure your business for tax efficiency, succession, retirement and other planning relating to business as distinct from personal assets	€1,000 plus VAT
Charitable Gifting and Philanthropy: Turning your success into significance through the use of planned giving, donor advised funds or charitable foundations	€1,000 plus VAT

Please note that our minimum fee for Financial Planning is €2,500 plus VAT. However, there is no requirement for all clients to pay for a Financial Plan as some clients may proceed directly to arranging an investment or pension (intermediation) see Terms of Business for more details.

For more details please see Our Remuneration.

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Global Wealth

The Republic of Ireland’s Only Chartered Financial Planners, Providing Financial Planning Advice, Commission-Free Investment Management and Retirement Planning Advice

Dedicated to Providing Personalised Investment and Retirement Planning Solutions

We achieve this by:

How Are We Different?

Whether You’re An

Accountant

Tax Consultant

Lawyer

Private Investor

Helping You Turn Your Financial Vision

Into a Reality

The Root of Who We Are

- C.S. Lewis

Your Partners in Financial Planning

Your Global Wealth Advisers

Marc Westlake CFP®, TEP, APFS, EFP, QFA

Chartered, Certified & European Financial Planning Professional™, Registered Trust & Estate Practitioner, Managing Director

Gerry Murphy FCA, CFP®

Chartered Accountant, Chairman

Andrew Reeves MSc, FPFS

Chartered FCSI, Certified Financial Planner™ & Chartered Financial Planner

John McNicholas

Financial Life Planning with Purpose

Our Financial Life Planning Consulting Process

Discovery Meeting

Financial Life Plan Meeting

Follow-Up Meeting

Progress Meeting

An Ongoing Relationship To Address Your Needs

1.

2.

3.

4.

What It Means

to be a Chartered Professional

Our Public Declarations

Committed to Providing Service of the Highest Quality

What Sets a Chartered Financial Planner Apart?

What We Value Most

Creativity

Relationships

Excellence

Service

Transparency

Principle 1

Principle 2

PRINCIPLE 3

Principle 4

PRINCIPLE 5

Principle 6

Principle 7

Principle 8

Tailored Solutions

Driven by Unique Circumstances

For Professionals

Examples Include

What You Can Expect

Examples Include

What You Can Expect

Confidently Plan

for the Future You Envision

For Private Clients

What You Can Expect

Services We Offer to Our Private Clients Include

Moving to Ireland Consulting Service

Moving to Ireland Consulting Service

Financial Life Planning

Financial Life Planning

Tax & Estate Planning

Tax & Estate Planning

Investment & Retirement Planning

Investment & Retirement Planning

Business Planning

Business Planning

Chairman

Social Impact Investing & Philanthropy

Social Impact Investing & Philanthropy

Scope of Wealth Management

Consultancy Services

Marc Westlake CFP^®, TEP, APFS, EFP, QFA

Gerry Murphy FCA, CFP^®

Discovery
Meeting

Financial Life
Plan Meeting

Follow-Up
Meeting

Progress
Meeting

Financial Planning
Service

Base Cost Plan
€2,500 plus VAT

Additional
Fee