The 1% pays the insurance company for their compliance cost, light & heat, staff costs, profit etc.
If you put in €500 a month, you are being charged €225. A lot of work goes into advising and implementing a pension for a client, a lot of it unseen by the client. It would take me 5/6 hours to advise a client on risk strategy and goals, do compliance paperwork and implement a policy.
Steven
http://www.bluewaterfp.ie (www.bluewaterfp.ie)