| Implementing automatic Forex trading at Credit Suisse |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| Richard Pike of Comit Gruppe Ireland looks at the implementation of an automated trading system for Credit Suisse and argues that the failure of banking e-commerce projects are often due to a lack of a well developed business plan and integrated processes. |
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| Industry calls for balanced regulation |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| There are concerns from the financial services industry that the new regulator will overemphasis the importance of the consumer and will fetter the wholesale sector. |
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| Is it time to change your pension fund manager? |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| Today's pension fund trustees are better educated and better informed about their pension funds than in years gone by, but are fund managers providing the services that trustees need? Finance asked trustees, fund managers and consultants to outline the obstacles to perfect pension fund management. |
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| Juggling accounting research with teaching |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| Eamonn J Walsh, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting at the Michael Smurfit Graduation School of Business, UCD, is not to be found in the office until 2:30pm, but is immersed in researching new technologies from daybreak. |
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| More property confusion |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| The Finance Bill once again stars the Minister for Finance as the master market manipulator, moving the property market now one way, now the other way. The Finance Bill seeks to move the property market in so many different directions, it runs the risk of a pile-up. |
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| OECD predicts major slowdown in venture capital funding in 2001 |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| The OECD has predicted a major slowdown in the availability of venture capital in 2001 in its most recent economic report. |
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| Pension fund trustees should not use peer group benchmarks according to the controversial Myners report |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| The UK Government’s plan to adopt radical proposals will lead to a fundamental shake up of the UK institutional investment industry - and will change the way pension fund trustees and the fund managers there work. |
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| Putting fund manager selection into perspective |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| Tom Murphy advises pension fund trustees to have a sound, well thought-out investment strategy that will achieve the fund's objectives before addressing the issue of who should manage it. |
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| Revolution in UK? |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| The House of Lords have had second thoughts about their approach to tax avoidance cases. The famous “Ramsay approach”, which has dominated tax planning in the UK for the last 20 years, has been substantially curtailed, if not killed. |
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| Share options |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| After several months of lobbying the Finance Act has delivered a 20 per cent CGT rate for employment related share options. This is hedged around with numerous conditions. The new proposal is a compromise which has left many unhappy. |
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| Survey shows that motivating staff is the key to having a high level of employee retention |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| A recent survey by recruitment company Executive Connections showed that money was not the primary reason people leave their jobs. Hilarie Geary looks at how creating the right working environment with communication and motivation could could help you retain your staff. |
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| Trustees demand more from fund managers |
Issue: 03 / 2001 |
| Pension fund trustees are demanding more choice, more information and more communication from their fund mangers. |
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| A ‘second to none’ mission of quality for Irish regulation |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| The new regulatory framework for financial services should be seen as an opportunity to begin the building of an outward looking financial services industry in Ireland that is blessed by being backed up by a regulatory system of excellence. The aim of IFSRA should be to provide Ireland, and financial services companies operating within and from the Irish jurisdiction, with a quality of regulation second to none internationally. |
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| AIB launches E350m Tara Hill CLO |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Allied Irish banks has launched Tara Hill BV, a o350 million Collateralised Loan Obligation (CLO). This fund will invest in a range of senior secured loans, mezzanine loans and high yield bonds in the buoyant European buy-out market. |
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| Allied Irish Bank launches first Irish CLO |
Issue: 02 / 2001 |
| Collateralised Loan Obligations are set to become a popular alternative investment strategy for pension funds and insurance companies in Europe. AIBCM have just launched the E350 million Tara Hill Fund, one of the first CLOs in Europe, and the first by an Irish company. |
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