| Wild geese |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| Aidan Mc Nulty
Founding Partner, RiskMetrics Group,
New York |
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| Working at home |
Issue: 06 / 2000 |
| An extension of “home working” would ease traffic problems and might increase participation in the workforce by women with families. Whatever happens, it is likely to become a more widespread phenomenon. Our tax code needs updating to facilitate it. |
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| Breaking a taboo: why sell someone else’s financial services? |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| There are many good reasons to offer another producer’s products through proprietary distribution channels, particularly in virtual financial services, but a key condition is to protect one’s own intellectual capital, writes Owen Purcell. |
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| Brokers not paying up for investor compensation |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Poor rate of contributions revealed in ICCL report |
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| Buoyancy to continue as returns over 20 per cent earned in last five years |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Marie Hunt reviews the market from an investor’s point of view. |
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| Checklist of top ten property law issues for commercial investors |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Christina McGuckian, winner of the Butterworth’s prize for best performance in property for both sittings of the 1998 final Law Society exams first part, gives a brief resume of a selection of key areas of law for property development. |
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| Clearance for UBIM sale by end June |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Sales of standalone investment management companies have been rare in Ireland. The Ulster Bank Investment Managers sale was the largest so far. |
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| Customer relationship management offered by life assurer to broker network - e-commerce solution for brokers |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Hibernian Life CGU recently launched a service which allows internet access for brokers to administrative details on customers, a platform which is capable of being implemented for other life assurers too. Vincent Nolan believes that this will be ‘an e-commerce solution for brokers who want to survive the challenge of direct writers’. |
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| Demand for retailing space up |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| As the economy and consumer spending continue to grow, demand for prime retailing locations is underpinned, and is not likely to be undermined by internet retailing, writes Fintan Tierney. |
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| Distance selling: many more hurdles for e-banking |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The proposed EU distance selling directive for financial services will impose new, sometimes thorny, regulations on e-banking and e-insurance, writes Edward Madden, and these could have the effect of undermining the advantages of internet financial services. |
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| E-commerce scorecard postive for UK property |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The UK specialist property management consulting company, Chesterton, which works with Farrell Grant Sparks in Ireland, has summarised its view of the effect of e-commerce on property development in the UK. |
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| Economists expect house prices to rise 60 per cent by 2005 |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Economists expect residential property prices to grow by 60 per cent in the period 2000-2004, the annual Finance property survey reveals. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| The fourth annual Finance property survey comes after a year of heightened debate and controversy. |
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| Finance recruitment casts the net wide |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| Many Irish companies are having to recruit outside the country to fill senior finance positions, whilst existing personnel are increasingly being enticed to stay put by the use of bonuses and perks, according to the Spring 2000 salary survey from recruitment consultants, SkillsGroup International. |
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| Financial sector counting on new product and service developments |
Issue: 05 / 2000 |
| European financial services companies are counting on new product and service developments to compete more effectively and to deliver enhanced shareholder value over the next three years, according to a report from Xerox, the document company. |
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