| How to manage the achievers in your business |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| Eamon Kelly looks at the issues involved in managing the Achiever type of personality and asks whether they are the life-blood of financial services or the main cause of internal haemorrhaging for companies. |
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| Investment matters |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| It is not clear how level the playing field will be between onshore and offshore investment products, as a result of the Minister’s changes. Nothing significant emerged in the budget in the shape of an encouragement to salt away for a rainy day. |
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| ISE appoints Somers as Director of Listings |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| The Irish Stock Exchange has appointed Deirdre Somers as Director of Listings with responsibility for all of the Exchange’s Listing business. This follows the departure of Gerardine Jones, previously Director of Listings, who takes up her new role as chief operating officer with Dolmen Butler Briscoe stockbrokers this month. |
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| Lack of savings making Ireland vulnerable to recession |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| IAIM calls for Government to introduce medium term savings incentives as the household savings ratio drops to below seven per cent. |
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| Last chance to apply for qualifying investor status, as rules take effect |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| As the new rules for qualifying investor status take effect this month, Gary O’Mahony looks at the options for those companies who haven’t dealt with these regulations yet. |
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| Listing of Mutual Funds on the Irish Stock Exchange |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| A walk through the basic procedures for listing mutual funds on the Irish Stock Exchange. |
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| Moderate optimism in finance, despite US slowdown |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| The financial services industry faces an ‘interesting’ year, as uncertainty in the international economy centres on the United States itself. Irish concerns are particularly acute, given the close connection between the Irish economy and US high tech industry. |
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| NCB launch web training for investors |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| Would-be investors can now log on to the NCB stockbrokers’ website and access the company’s online training guide for retail investors. |
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| O’Connor appointed Advisor |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| Oliver O’Connor, contributing editor of Finance, has been appointed as a special advisor to the T?naiste Mary Harney. |
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| Oh so close! |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| The Minister came close to delivering a good Budget. Why did he ruin it with silly PRSI proposals? |
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| Pension investors face challenge |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| An IAPF seminar held in Dublin this month warned that investors are likely to face turbulent equity markets in the early part of the year but added that the powerful effects of lower interest rates are likely to prompt renewed growth in economies and profits as the year progresses. |
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| Pfandbrief moves |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| A memo concerning the proposals for ‘Pfandbrief’ type legislation is currently with all the Government departments, the last stage before it goes to the Government. |
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| Roseingrave to head ABN AMRO |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| Dubliner Gerry Roseingrave has been appointed as head of global financial markets and country representative for ABN AMRO Ireland. |
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| Smurfit ranked fifth |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| The Smurfit School of Business was ranked 5th globally for return on investment and 14th in Europe among European Business Schools by a Financial Times survey. |
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| Still a Bush in the White House |
Issue: 01 / 2001 |
| In January 1991 the economic landscape in Ireland looked substantially different. The world was recovering form the Gulf War, the price of oil was dominating and stockbrokers were awaiting an upswing. Looking back through the early issues of a decade ago however there are similarities with today. The highlights below illustrate the era gone by. |
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