| The Dublin Offices Market broadens its boundaries
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Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| Shortage of supply continues to dominate the Dublin Offices market, with availability at an all-time low. according to Maire Hunt. |
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| The Irish Property market needs strong supply side measures |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| First time buyers are becoming a rare breed as house prices go through the roof and continued economic progress means that we must look at the house market differently not wait for it to slowdown. |
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| The New Openness |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| The website of the Department of Finance contains documents that reveal the manner in which the 1999 Finance Act was created, commencing in the Summer of 1998. This is a unique insight into a process as old as the State. |
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| The OECD Advises |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| The OECD have praised Ireland's economic performance. It has also offered advice on future taxation policy, some of which may be politically unacceptable. |
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| The Regulatory Framework for Mergers and Acquisitions |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| John Handoll and Derek Fish review the existing mergers legislation and summarise some recent developments in the area. |
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| The Treasury Accounting Bombshells |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| As of March this year financial reporting standards for derivatives have become more rigorous, say Cormac Murphy and Lisa Hayes |
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| This month |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| Only those approaching retirement and who plan to sell their houses and 'downsize' can regard the results of our latest property price forecast with unmitigated glee, and good luck to them - they worked long and hard for it in the lean 'sixties, 'seventies and 'eighties for it. |
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| WORMING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE LITERATURE ON SHARED SERVICES |
Issue: 05 / 1999 |
| Before you pick up the phone to a consulting firm, have you really researched the area? Kilian Maxwell reviews some of the literature currently available on the topic. |
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| Branding the deposit account |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| Ethos is out and products are in when it comes to branding a company's services for the ever more sophisticated consumer of the late 1990s, and financial services have had to pick up on the buzz. |
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| CAT Under Microscope |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| The Minister for Finance is to review CAT (gift and inheritance) prior to the next budget. The Minister has the opportunity to be radical. |
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| Clean hands in pensions |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| While maladministration or arrears of administration may be relatively common in Irish pensions schemes, there is little evidence of their being tainted by 'serious fraud' according to Anne Maher, chief executive of the pensions board. |
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| Continental European property markets:
the euro effect |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| The rising prices in commercial property in recent years have made it unfeasible for many potential investors to look at the Irish market. Timely, then, is the arrival of the euroland economy, whereby since January 1999, it has been possible to look at investment in ten other countries in Europe without having to consider the question of exchange risk. David Bouch offers a guide to what is available. |
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| Euro Hot Products |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| The forward and derivative products which will grow in usage and availability as a result of the euro
according to Irish banks. |
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| Hot products |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| A survey by Finance of the likely implications for treasurers of the euro will be an increasing use of a wide range of treasury instruments, notably options, as well as increasing recourse to highly engineered products. |
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| Manchester United life assurance - the next big thing? |
Issue: 04 / 1999 |
| Amid almost universal change in the face of financial services delivery, Owen Purcell advises that it will be the financial services companies with a strong brand that will be the long term survivors. |
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