Friends First

Industry:

Insurance

Description

Friends First is one of the leading financial services groups in the Irish market, providing a range of broadly based financial products including pensions, insurance and finance package. Friends First employs over 500 people in Ireland and has offices in Dublin, Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford. The Group's total assets exceed IR£3 billion. Friends First is part of the pan-European Eureko Alliance which is one of the largest insurance groups in Europe with a total asset base of IR£112.6 billion and over 43,000 employees in 15 countries.

Products & Services

investment services, protection, life insurance, financial services, party administration, life assurance

News Archive

Friends First cuts 147 jobs due to fall in life cover sales The Irish Times; 8/28/2009 FRIENDS FIRST, the fifth-largest life insurer in...would be closing its lending business, Friends First Finance, with the loss of 98 jobs...Mr Hegarty said the core business of Friends First Finance was small and medium-sized... ...more

Friends First to lay off 147 workers.(News) The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/28/2009 ...LEADING financial services group Friends First is to cut 147 jobs, it emerged...market is no longer sustainable. Friends First Finance will be wound up over...He explained: 'The closure of Friends First Finance is a necessary decision... ...more

Pension fund seeks court order The Irish Times; 10/20/2009 ...of delay, Mr Justice Peter Kelly refused to admit to the Commercial Court list the action by Friends First Managed Pension Funds Ltd, Friends First House, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin; Noel Connellan, Shanaway Road, Ennis, Co Clare, and Sean... ...more