| Major PPP report sets guidance for private financing |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| A 600-page report on the process and procedures for PPPs was delivered to the Department of Environment and Local Government in May. This should be the last word in planning a full-scale PPP process in Ireland. PricewaterhouseCoopers were joined by legal alliance of McCann Fitzgerald and L’Estrange & Brett, and engineers MC O’Sullivan and EC Harris. The report is made available on CD-ROM by the Department. The following are the report’s Guidance Notes in relation to private finance in PPPs. |
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| Managing the euro |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The issue is what should treasury managers do about diversifying risk given the greater than expected volatility - downside - of the euro. Finance asked Derek Keogh, a Corporate Treasury Manager in Anglo Irish Bank. |
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| New software not always needed for CRM, KPMG says |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
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| O’Briain takes the baton of top performance and consensual style at Friends First |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| Ruth O’Briain recently took over the top position in investment management at Friends First when her mentor and colleague Pramit Ghose left to head Hibernian CGU. She intends to continue the consensus style among the team of eleven investment managers that Friends has grown to. |
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| Pension fund bill published |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The bill to establish a reserve pension fund for the State was published by the Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, on 14 June and was immediately welcomed by the Irish Association of Investment Managers for the commercial mandate it gives the fund. |
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| Privatisation: lessons need to be learned |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| David O’Flanagan highlights the areas to examine carefully in privatising State companies and suggests approaches to ensure success |
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| Retirement relief |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The cap on retirement relief was increased by 50% in Finance Act 2000. This focuses attention on a valuable but much misunderstood relief. |
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| Standard offers new UK fund |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The latest UK property fund offered to Irish investors from Standard Life carries no upfront charge and uses currency hedging to minimise euro-sterling exchange risk. |
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| Straight talking from bankers’ bank |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements released in early June contained fresh, plain, and even humorous statements about the international economy, rewarding traders, the euro and capital markets. The following are edited highlights. |
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| Straight talking from bankers’ bank |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements released in early June contained fresh, plain, and even humorous statements about the international economy, rewarding traders, the euro and capital markets. The following are edited highlights. |
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| Straight talking from bankers’ bank |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| The annual report of the Bank for International Settlements released in early June contained fresh, plain, and even humorous statements about the international economy, rewarding traders, the euro and capital markets. The following are edited highlights. |
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| The media and the messenger |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| James Morrissey, Corporate Affairs Director, Fleishman-Hillard Saunders
Public Relations Consultants |
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| Who’s who in Finance: Barry O’Sullivan, Financial Controller, Accuris ltd. |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
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| Who’s who in Finance: Conor Swan, Business Development Manager, IFG Mortgages, Business -to- Business Division (Part of IFG Group plc) |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
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| Wild geese |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| David Coffey
Assistant Vice President, Corporate Planning, Strategic Sourcing, ABN AMRO North America |
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