What does 2017 hold for your money?

Whether it's a clampdown on offshore assets or changes to the pensions or insurance sector, here's what experts think is coming down the tracks

The year when auto-enrolment to a pension could become a reality

Jerry Moriarty

This year is likely to see the start of considerable change to the structure of the Irish pensions system. A revised EU pensions directive will become European law in early 2017 and must then be transposed into Irish law within two years.

The focus of the directive is on cross-border pension schemes, governance and communications.

The governance provisions are likely ...