| Capital allowances boost property investment |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| The recent sale of La Touche House to a group of 62 Irish investors has highlighted the attractiveness of capital allowances for property investment. |
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| Conference a success |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Over 260 delegates attended the recent Finance Dublin conference, which featured keynote speeches by the Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, Michael Noonan, leader of Fine Gael and John Hurley in of his first speaking engagements as new Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. |
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| Deal of the year 2002: Permanent tsb is most admired M&A deal |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| FINANCE's annual deal directory of the most interesting M&A transactions of he past 12 months profiled by Ireland's corporate finance advisors. |
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| Deals of the year: As profiled by Ireland’s corporate finance advisers |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Deals in excess of E1000m |
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| Directors need to act in the best interest of the company |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Stephen Hegarty looks at the responsibilities facing company directors when a bid is made for their company focusing on the Irish Takeover Rules. |
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| Editorial |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Blueprint for new regulatory structure published |
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| FINANCE is moving! |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Fintel Publications Ltd are moving from our offices in Ballsbridge to Beacon Court in Sandyford Business Park. |
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| Financial institutions need to be focussed on eventual impact of Basle Accord |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| International developments in regulation, such as the Basle Accord, have a direct impact on Irish financial institutions and can affect their risk management strategies says Lorcan Tiernan. |
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| Harmony once again |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| The ‘tax harmonisation’ banner has been raised in the EU yet again. This time the focus is on aspects of tax other than the tax rate. The ultimate objective is to make harmonisation of tax rates inevitable. |
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| IFSRA Bill should be withdrawn |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Responding to the publication of the IFSRA Bill which allows for a single regulatory structure in Ireland, Ray Kinsella says that the institutional structure and mandate of the regulatory arrangements envisaged in the Bill are fatally flawed and therefore the Bill should be shelved. |
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| Industry calls for simplification of legislation |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Mixed reactions to the Pension Bill have highlighted the need for a simplification of the Irish pension market legislation. |
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| Industry may have to pay for new regulation |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| The proposed Bill for the formation of Ireland’s new financial services regulatory structure has just been published but leaves many questions unanswered. |
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| Irish property investors look to UK market for higher return |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| The UK commercial property market is becoming increasingly attractive for Irish investors as it offers higher yields and greater liquidity says Sean O'Brien. |
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| Jury is still out on pan-European pensions |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| The development of a suitable pan-European pensions product for employees of multi-national corporations was the topic of much debate in a seminar held on Wednesday, April 10th, in conjunction with the Finance Dublin Annual Conference. |
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| M&A activity should pick up in 2002, but challenges remain |
Issue: 04 / 2002 |
| Leo Casey predicts Irish M&A activity in 2002 by deal type and industry sector and says that the level of activity should exceed 2001 levels. However, he highlights a challenge facing the large cap and traditionally acquisitive Irish plc's such as CRH and Kerry Group, who will find it difficult to identify increasingly large acquisition targets, which are becoming scarcer. |
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