| Murphy takes equity sales title |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Davy return to top of this category as Seamus Murphy takes first place followed by Liam Boggan and Enrique Curran, both of Merrion. |
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| O’Leary wins for second year running |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Dermot O’Leary of Goodbody has retained his title as ‘Best Research Economist’. O’Leary won for the first time last year taking the title from Robbie Kelleher of Davy who won in 2005. |
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| OECD predicts further house price falls in Ireland |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in its influential half yearly Economic Outlook report, predicts that Irish house prices are likely to have further to fall in an economy which, it points out, has the highest share of housing output as a share of GDP of any country in the 30 nation OECD area. |
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| Priority switches to Day to Day Sales Service |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Fund managers have changed their top priority for choosing a stockbroker in this year's survey with Day to Day Sales Services pushing last year's top prioirty, Quality of Equity Research into second place. |
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| Quality research for clients is the key |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Clients are looking for a clear message from their broker; one that is delivered with conviction and backed by compelling data, says Enrique Curran. International and domestic investors alike await evidence that earnings forecasts in Ireland are robust, he says. |
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| Regulator increases cooperation |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| The Financial Regulator is to work in closer cooperation with its European colleagues to assess the issues of the credit and liquidity crisis, according to the Financial Regulator’s Strategic Review of 2008-2010. The announcement comes days after Charlie McCreevy criticises the existing financial services regulatory framework. |
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| Regulator says it will significantly increase securities regulation |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| The Financial Regulator has stated that it will be increasing supervision of the authorised securities markets, by developing a new system of monitoring trades, according to the Regulator’s Strategic Plan 2008-2010. The Regulator is also in the process of conducting a review of fund administrators, in light of the credit and liquidity crisis. |
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| Russell Brennan Keane and Cremin McCarthy merge |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Russell Brennan Keane, Ireland’s only top-10 accountancy firm based outside of Dublin, continues to grow its business through a series of acquisitions. |
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| Sector will return to basics in 2008 |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Despite the credit and liquidity crisis impacting severely on the securitisation market in 2007, the general consensus of delegates and speakers at the 6th Finance Dublin Securitisation Conference was that the industry needs to return to basics to go forward from the crisis, but that the sector will recover some time in 2008. Governor of
the Central Bank, John Hurley, delivered the keynote address to delegates, calling for a reassessment of the securitised model of capital markets saying it would ‘help create a more robust securitisation model, thereby ensuring that the many important benefits of this model are preserved’. |
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| Strong IFSC will not be troubled by global financial concerns |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| The IFSC has evolved to such a degree that it should not see the current developments in the market as a threat. Padraig Rushe points out that the centre was born during a period of major turbulence in financial markets, and is now well placed to prosper. |
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| Swiss firm opens Dublin office |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Swiss wealth management firm, Helvetia Wealth, has set up a Dublin office to expand its European offering to private investors. The new company, Helvetia Wealth AG will create bespoke portfolios to suit individual clients’ needs. |
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| The changing challenges of the Irish equity market |
Issue: 12 / 2007 |
| Having enjoyed a decade of growth and diversification of investors, Irish equities are now suffering from a flight of investment to other jurisdictions, writes Robbie Kelleher. He says that the dramatic events of late have left Irish equities undervalued. |
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| Bankers call it a day |
Issue: 11 / 2007 |
| Two of Ireland’s most prominent bankers are to leave their day jobs to take up new roles in the corporate sector. |
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| BOI brings €400m deal to market |
Issue: 11 / 2007 |
| Bank of Ireland has launched a securitisation deal, despite the adverse conditions in the market,
created by the credit and liquidity crisis. The deal is the first Irish embedded value securitisation deal,
and the first open book deal in Europe. |
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| Cash management banks can offer enhanced value |
Issue: 11 / 2007 |
| There is an understandable temptation for fund managers to view their cash management banks as just suppliers of a commoditised service. But the right cash management bank also has expert knowledge that can add considerable business-enhancing value. Bill Wrest highlights how managers can leverage this expertise to their competitive advantage. |
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