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Eoin McGee
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Eoin McGee is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and qualified financial advisor QFA. Eoin has been working with clients and businesses for 25 years. He started his career with Irish Life assurance where he learned the inner workings of a large life company. He left to spend time in technical support in Standard Life before returning to Irish Life as a financial planner. He was the youngest financial advisor at that time to have ever been recruited for the role. He quickly became one of the most successful advisors in Irish Life. After several years in this role, he was approached by Ulster Bank and became a wealth manager covering five branches throughout Leinster.
It was at this time he was headhunted to create and head up a national team for the then third largest mortgage broker in the country, he recruited a team of six advisors and two support staff. Eoin was the Head of Financial Planning for the newest and most dynamic team of advisors in the country.
In April 2025, Eoin began a new column with the Irish Independent. Every second Wednesday, Eoin will be answering reader questions for the Indo Money Hub.
In 2024, Eoin was named as the presenter for a new show on RTÉ One, The Complaints Bureau, with the show returning for a second season in 2025. In the show, consumers share their frustrations with a team of journalists who try to find a resolution to their problems. Stories range from holiday scams to regulating lip-fillers, from the mystery of missing solar credits to the priest seeking the Pope's intervention to secure a deserved flight refund.
In 2023, Eoin released his podcast, ‘Understanding Money with Eoin McGee’. In the show, we hear listeners give their real-life experience of a changing world, and with the help of experts, Eoin equips them with advice and information to help them understand it. In jargon-free, easy to understand language, Eoin lays out the building blocks of sound financial planning and how understanding them will leave you better placed.
In 2008, Eoin set up Prosperous Financial Planning. His ambition with Prosperous was to establish a fee-based client centric offering to his clients. In the belief that by “doing right” by the client every time will result in long-lasting, long-term relationships. The business is built on its service and the expert delivery of advice.
Eoin was one of the first people in the country to attain the designation of Qualified Financial Advisor. He has also completed a post grad in the school of professional finance, UCD and successfully completed the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ exam in February 2014. Eoin has been a member of the Brokers Ireland financial services committee and he also sat on the steering group of FPSB (Financial Planning Standards Board) Ireland. He currently sits on the advisory committee of a large investment fund.
In 2017 Eoin took part in a TV show on RTE called ‘This Crowded House’. The show saw Brendan Courtney engage with young adults who were trying to move out of home to rent or buy. Brendan brought each person to see Eoin for financial advice. Series two of ‘This Crowded House’ was aired in Autumn 2018.
Eoin presented four seasons of a show called ‘How to be Good with Money’ which aired on RTÉ One. Each week, Eoin helped a household to manage their money better and achieve their financial goals. Eoin also wrote a book by the same name which is a No.1 bestseller and was in the top three of bestselling Personal Finance books of all time. In 2022, Eoin released his second book 'How to Make Your Money Work'. The book has been at the top of the charts since its release. As well as regularly contributing features in the national press, Eoin is a regular personal finance expert guest on national radio and presents a financial segment on ‘Today with Claire Byrne’ on RTÉ Radio One.
Eoin often speaks to corporate companies on topics from financial and mental health to personal finances and mortgages to investing and debt management.
Eoin has a keen interest in Gaelic games at club and intercounty level. He has been the Chair of the board of his local GAA Club Aylmer Gaels, the chair of Ballyteague GFC development committee and a member of the executive. He is a Dublin GAA football supporter. Eoin runs when he can find the time and ran in the New York Marathon in 2019 on behalf of Temple St children’s hospital.
For more information please contact: [email protected] or 35319061011
It was at this time he was headhunted to create and head up a national team for the then third largest mortgage broker in the country, he recruited a team of six advisors and two support staff. Eoin was the Head of Financial Planning for the newest and most dynamic team of advisors in the country.
In April 2025, Eoin began a new column with the Irish Independent. Every second Wednesday, Eoin will be answering reader questions for the Indo Money Hub.
In 2024, Eoin was named as the presenter for a new show on RTÉ One, The Complaints Bureau, with the show returning for a second season in 2025. In the show, consumers share their frustrations with a team of journalists who try to find a resolution to their problems. Stories range from holiday scams to regulating lip-fillers, from the mystery of missing solar credits to the priest seeking the Pope's intervention to secure a deserved flight refund.
In 2023, Eoin released his podcast, ‘Understanding Money with Eoin McGee’. In the show, we hear listeners give their real-life experience of a changing world, and with the help of experts, Eoin equips them with advice and information to help them understand it. In jargon-free, easy to understand language, Eoin lays out the building blocks of sound financial planning and how understanding them will leave you better placed.
In 2008, Eoin set up Prosperous Financial Planning. His ambition with Prosperous was to establish a fee-based client centric offering to his clients. In the belief that by “doing right” by the client every time will result in long-lasting, long-term relationships. The business is built on its service and the expert delivery of advice.
Eoin was one of the first people in the country to attain the designation of Qualified Financial Advisor. He has also completed a post grad in the school of professional finance, UCD and successfully completed the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ exam in February 2014. Eoin has been a member of the Brokers Ireland financial services committee and he also sat on the steering group of FPSB (Financial Planning Standards Board) Ireland. He currently sits on the advisory committee of a large investment fund.
In 2017 Eoin took part in a TV show on RTE called ‘This Crowded House’. The show saw Brendan Courtney engage with young adults who were trying to move out of home to rent or buy. Brendan brought each person to see Eoin for financial advice. Series two of ‘This Crowded House’ was aired in Autumn 2018.
Eoin presented four seasons of a show called ‘How to be Good with Money’ which aired on RTÉ One. Each week, Eoin helped a household to manage their money better and achieve their financial goals. Eoin also wrote a book by the same name which is a No.1 bestseller and was in the top three of bestselling Personal Finance books of all time. In 2022, Eoin released his second book 'How to Make Your Money Work'. The book has been at the top of the charts since its release. As well as regularly contributing features in the national press, Eoin is a regular personal finance expert guest on national radio and presents a financial segment on ‘Today with Claire Byrne’ on RTÉ Radio One.
Eoin often speaks to corporate companies on topics from financial and mental health to personal finances and mortgages to investing and debt management.
Eoin has a keen interest in Gaelic games at club and intercounty level. He has been the Chair of the board of his local GAA Club Aylmer Gaels, the chair of Ballyteague GFC development committee and a member of the executive. He is a Dublin GAA football supporter. Eoin runs when he can find the time and ran in the New York Marathon in 2019 on behalf of Temple St children’s hospital.
For more information please contact: [email protected] or 35319061011