| Financial management in IT services |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Paul O’Brien is Finance Director at IT Alliance, an IT service company established in 1997 and now employing 250 people. It covers outsourcing, testing and consulting, and has partnered with technology companies such as Compaq and Netscape. He previously worked for Compaq and Glen Dimplex. |
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| Fitch explains European Pfandbrief-type bonds |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| The international ratings agency, Fitch, has issued a report analysing the differences between mortgage bonds in European jurisdictions. |
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| Friends First in phase II of European growth |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Friends First is to be part of the newly-formed Eureko NV company which has announced its intention to seek a public listing on European stock markets within two years. |
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| Gateway to deliver real time credit approval |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Computer hardware company Gateway is partnering with financial services companies to create an internet web-hub. |
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| Inflows distort pricing of risk |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Speaking at an AIB investment managers seminar recently, Joe Rooney, managing director of Lehman Brothers Global Equity Strategy, emphasised that the current long-running equity cycle was reaching a turning point. Rooney described how the New Economy, as it applies to the global equity market, is looking distinctly tired. The following is an extract from his presentation. |
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| Internet to be taxed |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| The EU have published their proposals to ensure that internet based services sold into the EU will bear VAT. It marks a decisive end to the internet’s tax honeymoon. |
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| Irish fund managers anticipate IEP300bn industry within five years |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Speaking recently at the Dublin Funds Industry Association conference, Kevin Murphy, currently Chairman of the Irish Association of Investment Managers, outlined his view of how members of the IAIM would manage IEP300bn within 5 years. |
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| Irish venture capital growth rockets ahead in Europe |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Investment in European private equity increased by a quarter in 1999, according to the most recent figures published by the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). |
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| Is the ISEQ relevant any more? |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Des Doran examines the use of the ISEQ and other indices as benchmarks in the context of European and global investment opportunities |
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| Key changeover decisions for the euro being delayed |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| ‘From 1st of January 2002 all the basic operational functions have to be carried out in euro’, Yvonne Cullen reminds Irish business. |
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| NTMA to recruit fund managers from September |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Michael Somers says to Finance that the recruitment process will begin as the Oireachtas prepares to debate the Bills giving new powers to the agency. |
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| Outplacing financial staff challenges traditional mindset |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| With at most 35 per cent of staff in traditional functions likely to move to international services, many people in financial services will be making major career and lifestyle adjustments in the near future. There are plenty of opportunities apart from early retirement, writes Gerard O'Shea. |
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| Pension mortgages now more attractive |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Alison Coffey on how to buy a property, maximise tax relief and have your business pay for it. |
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| Rigging the housing market |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| The latest stamp duty measures continue the trend of penalising landlords and tenants of residential property and favouring owner occupiers of residential property. |
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| Scrap the Single Regulator and make way for European supervision |
Issue: 07 / 2000 |
| Ray Kinsella argues that it is still not too late to ditch the whole principle of a single regulatory authority for financial services and to support moves for the European Central Bank to have a real role in financial supervision. |
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