{"id":883190,"date":"2026-09-07T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883190\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:36:12","slug":"davy-opens-new-limerick-office-wealth-in-mid-west-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883190\/","title":{"rendered":"Davy opens new Limerick office, wealth in Mid-West soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wealth management and investment banking services Davy has opened a new dedicated office in Limerick City.<\/p>\n<p>The new office on Limerick&#8217;s O&#8217;Connell Street shares a building with the Bank of Ireland branch and is led by Limerick native wealth adviser James Rael.<\/p>\n<p>The office will be supported by a team of six regional wealth specialists and financial planning, tax and investment teams based in Davy&#8217;s Dublin headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Davy said the decision to open the new office is due to very strong growth in demand for its wealth management services across Limerick City and County in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that its client numbers almost doubled in the area, while assets under management more than trebling over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Growth in Limerick has significantly outpaced the wider group average over the same time, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trend is evident across the wider Mid-West region, with both Clare and Tipperary also recording strong growth in client numbers and assets under management since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Davy attributes the growth of its Limerick business to a combination of factors, including strong growth in high-value multi-national employment in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the average disposable income of individuals living in Limerick was the second-highest of any county in Ireland in 2024 (the most recent year for which data is available), behind only Dublin and ahead of Cork.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, new company registrations in the past five years numbered more than 2,000, making up close to 30% of all companies registered in the county.<\/p>\n<p>James Rael, who leads Davy&#8217;s Limerick office, said that Limerick is rapidly growing as an exciting hub for business, as demonstrated by the significant growth in new businesses and new Davy clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wealth management and investment banking services Davy has opened a new dedicated office in Limerick City. The new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-883190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}