| Hedge fund strategies |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| The global hedge fund market is now worth over $1 trillion. This column identifies the key strategies adopted by hedge funds. |
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| Hedging a portfolio through spread betting |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Financial spread betting involves betting on the direction of a financial market without buying or selling the underlying instrument. Because of the relatively high level of gearing and the favourable tax treatment of profits, it can be a useful and effective method of hedging a portfolio or a currency exposure for the short to medium term writes Tony Judge. |
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| MBA combines distance education with face-to-face workshops |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Gerry Grenham gives an overview of the Institute of Banker’s MBA programme, and three past pupils discuss how the programme played a key role in their respective careers. |
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| Merrion, Goodbody ready hedge fund launch |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Dublinbased financial services groups Merrion Capital and Goodbody Stockbrokers are getting ready to follow Davy Stockbrokers and NCB Stockbrokers in launching hedge funds. |
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| New company start-up boosts demand for hedge fund professionals |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Hedge fund professionals are once more in demand this month, with the news that UBS, the Swiss banking group and a key player in the global hedge fund market, is to open a Dublin based hedge fund operation, UBS Fund Services (Ireland) Ltd. The operation, which will be headed up by Mark Mannion, formerly of PFPC International, will open in July with an initial workforce of 6-10 people. This is expected to grow quickly to 30-40. If you have a job, or if you are recruiting for a ‘top job’, which you think should be profiled here, please contact us with the details (email: topjobs@finance-magazine.com) |
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| New product to solve IAS 39 problems |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| A web-based secure portal providing best practice IAS 39 and risk management solutions for international corporates and financial institutions has been launched by AIB International Financial Services (AIBIFS). |
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| No house price slowdown as growth of 25p.c. is forecast over five years |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| The long awaited, much feared, slowdown in Irish residential property prices is still some time away, according to a panel of Ireland’s leading financial services economists, who predict that prices will grow by 25 per cent over the next five years in this, the eighth annual FINANCE property survey. |
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| Northern Trust to distribute in Ireland |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Northern Trust, one of the world’s largest fund mangers with over €478 billion under management, has signed an agreement with KBC Asset Manaagement (KBCAM), Ireland’s fourth largest asset manager, to create a new jointly-managed manager of managers (MoM) pension product. |
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| Obstacles to UK joining euro on the increase - Sir Edward |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| For the time being, at least, the immediate obstacles to UK membership of the euro have recently tended to increase, Sir Edward George, former governor of The Bank Of England told attendees at an AIB Capital Markets client event in the IFSC on May 13th. |
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| Pension version of the SSIA might be the answer to an ongoing problem |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| The adequacy of pension provision has received considerable press attention in recent years. However, to most people, the topic remains a subject of little interest and pension coverage remains low in certain categories. Recognising this, the Irish Insurance Federation commissioned Life Strategies to calculate the retirement savings shortfall in the Irish market. Padraic O’Malley examines the findings of the report. |
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| Pensions |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Approved retirement funds, the ability to gear up for property investment in particular, and the of launch of PRSAs have all focused attention on pensions as an exciting savings option. It is important that exciting options be viewed with a cool eye. |
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| Pershing scores its first two hits |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Since becoming a member of the Irish Stock Exchange at the start of this year, Pershing International Securities Limited has already signed up its first two clients, Goodbody Stockbrokers and Bloxham Stockbrokers. |
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| Plotting the next step in creating a single European insurance market |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| The European Commission recently convened a group of insurance industry experts to review progress made on completing the single European insurance market and to put forward proposals to assist European insurers to transact business on a pan-European basis. Aidan Cassells was a member of that group, and in this article he discusses the findings of a major report they released. |
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| Progress report - the building of a ‘stable platform’ by 2005 for IFRS |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Some time ago the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) set itself the objective of having in place by March 2004 a stable platform of those International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which EU listed companies would be required to adopt in 2005. Much has been done by the IASB in achieving its objective with the issue of seventeen revised standards, but there remain many areas in which we continue to await new standards, Marguerite Larkin writes. |
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| Property Poll |
Issue: 05 / 2004 |
| Ireland’s leading financial services economists give their predictions for the outlook for Ireland’s residential, commercial, retail and industrial sectors over the next five years. |
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