| Venture capital market in 2002 marked a return to the old fundamentals |
Issue: 01 / 2003 |
| In reviewing the venture capital sector Jimmy Maher writes that we have moved on from the halcyon days back to the ‘old paradigm’ of business fundamentals and he says that the old adage of the three keys to venture capital of ‘management’, ‘management’, and ‘management’ has made a comeback. |
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| Year 2002 - A private banker’s perspective |
Issue: 01 / 2003 |
| In looking back over 2002 John Rockett writes that while returns in the commercial property market began to slow, Irish investors continued to invest strongly in property and from a private banking perspective the sourcing, arranging and financing of property transactions for individuals and syndicates was a major activity during 2002. |
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| Boom to doom or just a soft landing? |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| David O’ Donnell reviews activity in the Irish corporate finance market over the past year and examines the outlook for 2003, where he forecasts merger and acquisition activity will remain steady as bidders look for real value at the bottom of the market. |
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| Diversification will be crucial in 2003 |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| A global market and a difficult geopolitical backdrop make it increasingly difficult to plan ahead but diversification across the full spectrum of investment instruments is an important way to cope with unforeseen events writes Mark Merrigan. |
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| Editorial |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Levy is inexplicable |
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| Financing options for property investment and development |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Bryan Higgins examines the broad ranges of financing options available for corporates considering site acquisition, development or the purchase of an investment property. |
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| Good advice |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| The Minister was not without much advice in framing his budget. It was unfortunate for the Minister that so much of it was conflicting and so little of it likely to increase the Government take from taxes to the degree needed by the Minister. In the event, the Budget did not respond in a clear way to most suggestions made. But it did to some. |
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| Growing a funds business |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| As business development manager for Fortis Fund Services (Ireland) Limited, targeting potential clients is top of the agenda for Philip Craig. |
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| Growth in financial salaries slows down |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Growth in average salaries across Ireland’s international financial services sector eased to 6.75 per cent in the year to August 2002, from 8 percent in 2001, according to Ernst & Young’s 12th annual survey on remuneration within the sector. |
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| Industry to protest over levy |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Financial services sector up in arms over discriminatory levy |
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| Interest rates to remain steady over next six months |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Each month, the Finance Markets Panel, which consists of leading Irish market participants and analysts, provides views on key financial markets, covering currencies, equities and the gilt markets. |
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| Ireland’s decreasing competitiveness needs to be addressed |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| The cost of doing business in Ireland is on an upward curve, and with inflation currently running at an annual rate of 4.6 per cent, our rate of price increase is now four and a half times that of the UK, our main trading partner. This needs to be addressed or there will be only one possible outcome - falling output and employment writes Philip Halpin. |
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| Lawless takes over |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Judith Lawless, a partner with McCann FitzGerald has been appointed president of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers (IACT). |
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| Market Committee formed |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| Following its September merger with CRESTCo, Euroclear, the world’s largest settlement system for domestic and international securities, has announced the creation of an Irish Market Advisory Committee (MAC). |
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| McCreevy mark II: A new and improved model? |
Issue: 11 / 2002 |
| In the Finance Stockbroking Survey 2002 Colin Hunt was voted ‘Best Economist’. Finance invited him to examine the economic outlook for Ireland in the aftermath of Budget 2003. |
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