Aidan McLoughlin

Group Managing Director, Independent Trustee Company

Aidan set up Independent Trustee Company in 1993 with his brother Sean McLoughlin. The business addressed a gap in the market at that time for individualised pensions. Aidan went on to set up other related companies, namely Independent Trustee (ITL) and ITC Consulting, which together comprise the ITC Group.

Aidan is a graduate of University College Dublin and qualified as a solicitor and a tax consultant in 1987. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland (ITI) and a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the Association of Pension Lawyers of Ireland (APLI) and is a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Pensions Management (FIIPM).

He was founding Chairman of the Association of Pensioneer Trustees of Ireland (APTI) and is currently deputy President of the Irish Brokers Association. He is editor of the Irish Broker magazine and of the Irish Tax Institute’s publication Pensions: Revenue Law and Practice, a comprehensive and essential industry textbook.

He has appeared before several Oireachtas Committees including Finance and Social Protection. He has also contributed to Capital Acquisitions Tax by Brian Bohan. He has tutored and delivered seminars to students and members of many industry bodies and has contributed articles on tax and legal matters to numerous publications.