Review, pension & investment advice please

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Age: 46

Spouse’s/Partner's age: 47

Dependents: 2 children: 9, 5.

Marital status: Married

Annual gross income from employment or profession:70,000

Annual gross income of spouse:100,000

Monthly take-home pay: 3800

Monthly take-home pay: 4300

Type of employment: Both Full time, permanent employee in private sector

In general are you:

(a) spending more than you earn, or

(b) saving?
Saving but lots of outgoings despite no loans.

Rough estimate of value of home: 685,000

Amount outstanding on your mortgage: 200,000

What interest rate are you paying? : 2.35% with Ulster, fixed for 2 years, due to finish 2036

Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc: n/a

Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes

If not, what is the balance on your credit card?

Savings and investments:

72,000 in current account.

48,500 Consensus bond with Irish Life

20,000 in state saving bond for kids college education, & 3,500 in current account from their monthly children’s allowance will transfer to bond each time it reaches 5000.

Do you have a pension scheme?
Contribute 10% and 5% match by employer

Spouse 15 % & 5% match by employer

€12,000 in pension 1 (new employer) & €306,000 in pension 2

Unsure of spouse current pension value but only started paying into over last 6-7years.

Do you own any investment or other property? N/A

Life insurance: Mortgage protection insurance. Life cover x 4 from each employer.

Health insurance: covered by employers

Other information which might be relevant
We hope to repay mortgage by 2030 by paying off 10k lumpsums each year.

Questions
We need to move investments from current accounts but at a loss as to what we should move it to. Any investments I have made in stock market in past have failed miserably…

Our current plan to pay off mortgage by 2030 seems achievable, hope to be mortgage free by the time oldest starts college.

Concerned that pension pots are not good enough as spouse has only relatively recently started pumping € into it.

Concerned also that our life insurance policy is insufficient
 
€72k in current account is a waste, have a look at raisin. Ie, they interest rates are not too bad at the moment, not enough to beat inflation but better than nothing
 
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