| New appointments |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| New stockbroking appointments. |
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| New multi-manager product launched |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| Canada Life Assurance (Ireland) Limited, the pensions and life assurance provider, has linked up with SEI Investments (Europe) Limited, the European subsidiary of investment manager SEI, to offer a ‘manager-of-managers’ funds product. |
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| Q3 sees decline but industry continues to grow buoyed by life sciences investment |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| Irish venture capital investment has declined in Q3, according to the latest figures from Ernst & Young, but the year-to-date figures paint a more positive picture, with life sciences emerging as the next major investment sector, according to industry experts. |
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| Regulation is driving growth at Mazars |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| Regulation is opening up opportunities for Mazars, which is the seventh largest accountancy firm in Ireland with fee income of €16 million, according to the latest FINANCE Accountancy Survey. Joe Carr talks to Fiona Reddan about his ambitions for growth. |
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| Revised Directors’ Compliance Statements are a step in the right direction |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| The introduction of the Company Law Review Group’s revised Directors’ Compliance Statements is a positive step in taking reasonable measures to foster and encourage a more positive, healthier compliance culture across corporate Ireland, writes David Nolan. |
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| The ECB’s monetary policy strategy |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| The European Central Bank recently made its first interest move since 2003 when it raised interest rates by 25 basis points. Here we examine the two pillars of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy - economic analysis and monetary analysis. |
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| Who’s Who in finance: Aldo Aletti |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| Who's who is Aldo Aletti
General Manager & Director, BPM Ireland plc |
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| Working for the deal makers |
Issue: 12 / 2005 |
| A chartered accountant by profession, Mark Collins was responsible for setting up KPMG’s Transaction Services division in Ireland in 2000. This division provides deal evaluation, financial and tax due diligence and public reporting (IPO) services in Ireland, and a highlight of such a position is the exposure he gets to many deal types, and to high quality deal makers such as Dermot Desmond and Niall McFadden. |
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| 2005 growth of credit derivatives - reasons, concerns and outlook |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| Despite volatility in the credit derivatives market post-Ford/General Motors downgrades, and concerns about systemic and settlement risks, the market is still growing at an annual rate of around 60 per cent. Examining the growth and future prospects of this market, Frank Monks writes that although there may be further set-backs along the way, the market is here to stay. |
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| A Day in the Life: financial professionals' insurance solutions |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| As vice-president for Marsh Ireland's FinPro practice, Breege Lynn's day reflects the growing concerns among clients recognising the shift in governance standards and the higher standards expected of those running successful businesses. Her day also involves conststant comparison of terms between underwriters in the Dublin, London, Paris and other markers analysing the differences in the underwriter’s offerings taking everything from pricing to coverage grants and value added services into account and their commitment to capacity for the risk. |
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| Art funds open up the market to smaller investors |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| Art funds are gaining in popularity amongst investors keen to diversify their art portfolio, and those with smaller amounts to invest. The funds function on the basis that pooled capital is used to purchase a variety of different types of art, and enable investors to achieve a diversified portfolio of art, writes Kay Cogan, founder of ARTFund,
a newly launched international investment fund which focuses on emerging artists - with galleries in London, Cork and Brisbane. |
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| Average Irish pension fund returned over 15 per cent in Q3 |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| After a number of years of poor performance, Irish pension funds are regaining lost ground, with the third quarter of 2005 particularly strong, writes Fiona Daly, with the average fund returning 15.8 per cent in the first nine months of this year. |
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| BoI refocuses for growth in UK |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| Des Crowley, currently chief executive, Retail Financial Services Ireland (RFSI), for Bank of Ireland (BOI), has been appointed chief Executive, UK Financial Services (UKFS). |
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| Budget 2005 and keeping lean |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| Jack Welch, the legendary ex CEO of GE nowadays plys his trade on the conference circuit, giving corporate pep talks to Fortune 500 leaders on what best to do in the environment of the mid 2000s, and he is still packing them in. His advice at present – in response to the question of what to do with costs – is cut them 30-40 per cent, because anything less won’t keep us competitive with Asia. |
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| Feedback on FSAP |
Issue: 11 / 2005 |
| The European Commission has published Part I of its FInancial Services Action Plan (FSAP) evaluation, which focuses on the process of adoption of the measures put forward in the plan, and is the first step of an exhaustive analysis of the impact of FSAP. The publication makes a number of recommendations on financial services policy. |
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