| Pension funds look to international specialists |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| The level of specialist investment management among Irish pension funds is growing fast, with employment of international investment managers on the increase. |
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| People on the Move |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| New role created at IBI |
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| Replicating the IFSC’s success |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Since its establishment in 1987, Ireland’s international financial services sector has moved from its original location in Dublin’s docklands to encompass the entire country, from Donegal to Waterford, and from Limerick to Meath. Employing almost 20,000 people, the sector, which was created under the auspices of the ‘International Financial Services Centre’, is a major contributor to the Government’s coffers, with corporation tax contributions of ?755.5 million in 2005. So if such a sector can be created once, what’s to stop it happening again if the right conditions exist – for example infrastructural factors similar to those that existed in the particular set of financial services industries that existed at the time the IFSC was set up? |
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| Revamped 'fitness & probity' requirements published |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| The financial services industry has welcomed the Financial Regulator's revised requirements for directors and senior managers working in the sector, which include significant changes from the first draft published in February 2005. However, concerns remain over the efficiency of the new regime. |
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| SEC chief and commissioner McCreevy to address Finance Dublin Conference in joint session |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Paul Atkins, SEC Commissioner with responsiblity for external affairs, is to speak at the forthcoming Eighth Annual Finance Dublin Conference 2007. Atkins will be joined at the two-day event by his European counterpart, Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy who will speak along with Atkins on the topic of the conference, which will be North Atlantic Capital Markets/Financial Services, covering major themes, including reporting, markets regulation, banking regulation and capital, and reinsurance and solvency. These themes including the race to establish a transAtlantic stock exchange, and other central issues determining the opportunities for Ireland's IFSC and international financial services industry will feature at the two day conference in Dublin Castle on March 26th and 27th. |
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| Strong demand for tax professionals |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| FinanceJobs.ie introduces the current trends and demands in the jobs market. This month has seen an increase in demand for senior tax professionals and analysts while opportunities for experienced accountants remain high. |
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| Thoughts for Wednesday's Budget |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| The downside of the next budget is that inevitably, it will be influenced by short-term election needs. But there is much the budget can do to improve the tax code and the economy, without conflicting with electoral needs. With our power to use the tax system to develop the economy significantly limited by EU rules, it is very frustrating to see those difficulties added to by poorly thought out domestic decisions, writes Brian Daly. |
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| Tide is turning towards regulation |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Industry support some level of over-sight for sector. |
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| Value of Merrion continues to rise |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Last year’s valuation of Merrion Capital by Landsbanki looks likely to be revised upwards based on latest profits at the firm. |
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| Visits to website double |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Page impressions on FINANCE magazine’s on-line portal, www.finance-magazine.com have doubled over the past year, up from 160,000 in 2005, to 320,000 so far this year. |
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| What FinanceJobs.ie offers job candidates |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| FinanceJobs.ie introduces the current trends and demands in the jobs market. This month has seen an increase in demand for senior tax professionals and analysts while opportunities for experienced accountants remain high. |
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| Who’s Who |
Issue: 11 / 2006 |
| Joe Kavanagh
Head of Performance Measurement & Risk Analysis, KBC Asset Management Ltd.
John McGrane
Head of Business & Commerical Banking, Ulster Bank. |
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| A Day in the Life: head of inward investment, Ulster Bank Group |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| David Pierce is the head of inward investment at Ulster Bank Group, and works closely with Royal Bank of Scotland offices globally, organising the requirements of its multinational clients located in Ireland. He is a member of the Institute of Bankers, FFCA and is the incoming president of the Chambers Ireland. |
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| Accountancy firms to recruit 1,771 staff over coming year - Finance survey |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| The top accountancy firms intend recruiting an additional 1,771 staff members over the coming year, to bring the total employed by the firms up to almost 9,000, according to this year’s annual FINANCE Accountancy Survey. Against a background of continuing skills shortages, accountants are benefiting from enhanced benefits packages, as well as rising salaries, with some employees expected to receive bonuses of 30 per cent of salary. |
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| BOI restructures |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Following the departure of Kevin Dolan, the former chief executive of asset management at Bank of Ireland, the bank has restructured to create a new capital markets division. |
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