Nick Charalambous leads me into his office at the back of a former AIB branch in the thriving commercial hub of Little Island, Cork, where more than 10,000 people work. A lot of them are pulling in six-figure salaries for companies like Eli Lilly and PepsiCo – and some are getting financial advice from the company Charalambous leads, Alpha Wealth. “We’re advising people who are sitting on this fortune of shares and I keep telling them the same thing – you’ve got to sell, take money off the table,” he says. For Charalambous, it all comes back to diversification. “Apple…

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“There’s a graveyard of financial advisory firms that have tried to come into Cork”

By the time Nick Charalambous set up Alpha Wealth in 2014, he'd had plenty of turbulence in his life – first as the rebellious son of a Greek Cypriot builder in London, then during his journey to building a fast-growing business in Cork.

21st May, 2026 - 12 min read

Alan English

Associate Editor

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