| Selling a business in a bear market |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| Conor McCarthy director at NCB looks at the challenges facing vendors in the current bear market. Valuations are different with buyers like private equity less active in the market. McCarthy says, that in this current climate, focus needs to be given to the ability to execute and fund a deal. |
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| The ongoing credit crisis and Irish finance |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
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| VAT on Fund Management - a changing European landscape |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| Niall Campbell comments on where Ireland sits in a changing European VAT landscape with regard to choice of fund management location. |
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| What asset class best meets my requirements? |
Issue: 04 / 2008 |
| Frank O’Brien, in an interview with FINANCE, outlines and analyses all asset classes. He says, in this bear market there is a hunger for alternative investments. He outlines the advantages and pitfalls alternative assets such as hedge funds and private equity pose. |
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| Absolute return portfolios, and the role of hedge funds |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| Pat McCormack describes the approach one leading wealth manager - Barclays - adopts in designing absolute return portfolios |
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| Alternative Investment strategies for the Celtic Tiger |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| The start of a global equities bear market, and the decline in property values both globally and in Ireland has again underlined the value of proper diversification and private wealth risk management. We examine the role of alternative investment strategies for Irish resident investors in a properly diversified portfolio, and their potential in the investment climate of 2008. |
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| Bonuses - the credit crisis has shifted the goalposts |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| In the first of a series of Symposiums on key topics in financial services HR, organised by FINANCEJOBS.IE, the jobs website of Finance and Finance Dublin, we examine the impact of the linking of bonuses as an element in the credit crisis |
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| Diversify and thrive |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
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| Dublin only Irish region with salary increases in 2007 |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
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| Economy: a temporary pause, not a prolonged slowdown |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| Dermot O’Leary, top Economist for 2007, is not panicking about the expected downturn in Irish economic growth in 2008-9; ‘After such a period of record growth, and in particular, the domestically generated nature of this growth more recently, a slowdown was overdue’. |
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| Exchange Traded Funds - low cost and diversified access to a huge range of alternatives |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
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| Facility to short a winning factor for some in 2007 |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| Equity Sales Trader of the year Laura Fitzpatrick on trading opportunities in 2008. |
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| Finance Bill 2008 |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| This year’s Finance Bill includes several useful measures to respond to industry needs but the more significant talking points regarding the treatment of foreign dividends and VAT on property are immersed in unnecessary complexity, write Brian Daly and Niall Campbell. |
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| Funds leader |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| Gerry Brady is Country Head of Northern Trust in Ireland. Northern Trust is a US Financial Institution founded in 1889 with $4.1 trillion of assets in custody and $996 billion of assets under administration. In Ireland, Northern Trust has licensed management, fund administration and custody /trustee companies, employing 505 staff in offices in Dublin and Limerick and administering $160 billion of assets as at December 31st 2007. |
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| Generating ‘alpha’ as your day job |
Issue: 02 / 2008 |
| Profile of Sean Crowe, C.O.O. and Head of Global Fixed Income and Specialist Products Bank of Ireland Asset Management. |
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