| Apart from telecoms, Irish private companies estimated to be worth nine times earnings |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| What is your estimate of the P/E of Irish private companies, based on private corporate finance activity you have seen in the last 12 months? |
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| Beta and the Capital Asset Pricing Model |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Possibly one of the biggest practical issues facing finance professionals, and especially portfolio managers, is to develop a means of assessing the risk-return trade-off for a security, or a portfolio as a whole. |
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| BT-ESAT most admired deal |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Apart from deals your firm has been involved in, which deal of 1999 - early 2000 do you most admire and why? |
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| Chairman of Revenue Commissioners to speak at Finance Dublin conference |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Dermot Quigley will address delegates at the Finance Dublin conference on March 29th on the topic ‘The Revenue Commissioners and the IFSC’. |
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| Corporate finance advisers bullish on technology, more cautious on restructuring |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| For this year’s special focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, Finance has carried out an opinion survey among corporate finance advisers on market developments in Mergers and Acquisitions, MBOs, and other corporate finance transactions. The answers together capture present thinking among Ireland’s corporate finance advisers on important topics such as sources of new finance, valuations, best deal structures, corporate restructuring and the degree of risk aversion among Irish management. |
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| Critical success factors for international deals |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Gerard Flood writes that integrated pre-deal planning is even more critical in cross-border deals, and cautions that operational details should not get left behind in the attention on deal structuring. |
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| Dividend witholding tax improved - Revenue |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Following consultations and lobbying, the Finance Bill 2000 proposes significant changes to dividend withholding tax, writes Philip Brennan. |
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| Early stage acquisitions and MBOs to dominate in telecoms |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| In which areas do you expect most M&A activity among Irish companies in the coming 12 months, by industry sector; by deal type; by value of deals? |
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| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The views of corporate finance advisers in the Finance M&A Survey capture the paradox of high buoyancy and a sense of resignation side by side in Irish private and public equity markets. |
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| Equity markets and tennis balls |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| After a day bouncing around the world’s equity markets, John Reynolds, head of equity research and strategy at NCB, spends the evening on the court. |
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| Euro stimulates M&A growth |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| A 153% growth in value in M&A in the eurozone in eleven months of 1999 has been pointed out by the European Central Bank. |
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| Finance Dublin Conference final seats |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Please book now to ensure a place at the Finance Dublin Conference in March as bookings indicate that it is almost sold out. |
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| Financial planning specialty at Grant Thornton |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| The new-look Grant Thornton plans to develop a particular competence in personal financial planing for high-wealth individuals, says Jimmy Murphy, managing partner. |
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| Good theory, little use |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| Danny Kitchen reviews Dividend Policy - its impact on firm value by Ronald C Lease (editor) et al, Harvard Business School Press, 1999. |
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| House prices: McLoughlin riposte to Slattery |
Issue: 03 / 2000 |
| William Slattery's article in February's Finance on private sector credit growth and house prices provoked a sustained debate in the media. The strongest contrary view came from Dr Dan McLoughlin of ABN AMRO Stockbrokers who wrote an initial riposte in his weekly 'Trader' note, and published a longer analysis of house prices with his colleague, Eamonn Hughes, provocatively titled - 'Housing in Ireland - cheap at the price'. The following was McLoughlin's analysis directly following Slattery's article. |
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