| Mercer’s new funds business |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Mercer Global Investments (MGI), Mercer’s multi-manager business, has formally launched its new European headquarters in Dublin, which has already accumulated assets under management of $500 million.
Despite high fees, multi-manager funds continue to grow in popularity in Ireland, as they allow easy access to a diverse range of specialist fund managers under a single fund structure. |
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| Mid-tier firms shine in another buoyant year of double digit fee income growth |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| A robust economy continues to fuel growth in Ireland’s accountancy sector, with the top firms benefiting from an average annual growth rate of almost 18 per cent,according to this year’s FINANCE Accountancy Survey. Mid-tier firms are the strongest performers, with Farrell Grant Sparks benefiting from its recent acquisitions,
and Grant Thornton recording a remarkable 42.9 per cent annual growth rate. As in last year’s survey, Deloitte is once more the most ‘efficient’ top accountancy firm, returning the most income per employee. |
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| MOP and Goodbody lead the pack |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Matheson Ormsby Prentice’s (MOP) and Goodbody Corporate Finance’s involvement in the Eircom takeover have ensured their places at the top of the corporate finance league tables for the first nine months of 2006, according to the latest statistics from MergerMarket. |
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| NPRF awards new mandates |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| The National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) has announced the winners of its manager tender competition which sought proposals to manage equities on a passive basis and to provide index plus solutions. |
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| People on the move |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| New CFO at BT |
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| Private companies to remain the key driver of Irish corporate activity |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| The current business environment provides a strong platform for a continued increase in corporate activity amongst Irish companies, writes Ted Webb, and with a relatively benign interest rate, high-growth environment and significant market confidence, he expects recent high levels of M&A activity to continue. Moreover, he believes that privately-owned companies will continue to be key drivers of this activity. |
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| Protecting your business, releasing your wealth - how to plan for retirement if you own a business |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| In addition to the provision of extensive investment services, Irish stockbroking firms also work with HNWIs on pension planning and retirement. Speaking to business owners, Alan Foy discusses looking beyond one’s business and what business owners can do for the future of the investment in their businesses and when the times comes how to distribute that wealth amongst other wealth management products. |
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| Stamp duty problems |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Recent discussion of possible changes to stamp duty seems to have been focussed more on election year issues than on the real problems that stamp duty gives rise to. The focus on residential property diverts attention from the problems which stamp duty can cause to the business community. |
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| Top jobs - current open positions in financial services |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Opportunities abound for senior funds professionals with firms such as new start-up, Maples Finance, currently recruiting for senior positions. For more information on any of the below jobs, and indeed hundreds of other jobs, log-on to www.financejobs.ie. |
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| UK industry calls for regulation of CFDs |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Improved disclosure of the Contracts for Difference (CFDs) market in the UK is being called for by the Association of Investment Trust Companies (AITC), the trade organisation for the investment company industry in the UK. |
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| US Federal Reserve announcements and the implications for the Irish stock market |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Don Bredin and Gerard O’Reilly examine the relationship between the ISEQ returns and volatility and U.S. monetary policy. They identify the sensitivity of the Irish economy in general and the Irish stock market in particular to events in the US. |
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| Who’s Who in finance |
Issue: 10 / 2006 |
| Declan Fitzgerald, Head of capital markets, Ulster Bank,
Kieran Marshall, Head of corporate banking, National Irish Bank. |
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| A contract with a difference |
Issue: 09 / 2006 |
| Contracts for difference (CFD) have shown a growing popularity in the Irish market and in some quarters this phenomenon as been described as a worrying development. In light of this popularity, we take a step back and examine more closely what CFDs are. |
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| A Day in the Centre for Financial Markets |
Issue: 09 / 2006 |
| John Cotter, director of the Centre for Financial Markets at UCD, spends his day collaborating with students, academics and industry professionals, with the aim of developing business education and research in Ireland. He is currently working on a study looking at the attempts to solve the crises in UK defined benefit pensions schemes. The findings suggest that the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) introduced by UK government following the Pensions Act 2004 will exacerbate the crises rather than reduce it. |
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| Bonuses exceed expectation in 2006 |
Issue: 09 / 2006 |
| Almost half of employees working in financial services received a larger bonus than they were expecting this year. The findings, from a recent online poll by Robert Half Finance and Accounting, reflect the buoyant state of the financial services sector in Ireland. |
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