14
February
2012
On the 31st January I gave a talk at a debate in the Shelbourne Hotel called Facing the Unthinkable: the Collapse of the Euro, the Practical and Legal Implications, which was organised by Solicitors Reddy Charlton to raise funds for Straight Ahead, a medical charity that was establ
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11
August
2011
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15
March
2012
This year's IRFU Charitable Trust O2 Rugby Ball was held in the Burlington Hotel on the eve of the Ireland v Scotland Six Nations match.
Over 620 guests attended the ball and helped to raise funds
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14
March
2012
The UK chancellor will announce plans in next week's budget for the government's Debt Management Office to test the appetite for extending the length of government bonds to 100 years or into perpetuity. Pension funds would be the most likely investors in such long-term assets but they were among
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14
March
2012
As reported in the Independent 14th March 2012
A senior Goldman Sachs executive has attacked a "toxic" and "destructive" culture at the leading in
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6
March
2012
'And you thought 2011 was tough?' So went the headlines in December as media and market pundits, reflecting on a miserable year, saw no respite for investors in 2012. But markets have a funny way of confounding expectations. To be sure, the reasons to be anxious were piling high as th
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28
February
2012
BY FIONA REDDAN in The Irish Times on 28th February 2012
If you don’t want to be ‘Madoffed’, à la the eponymous investor whose giant Ponzi scheme led many to lose their life’s savings, or even just to suffer poor performance, it’s worth putting a l
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20
February
2012
As advocates of investing through low-cost index funds, imagine our surprise today when we read that Standard Life will be closing its index tracking investment options with effect from the 28th May. The reason given by Standard Life is that it is due to “low investment volumes”
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8
February
2012
Today Wednesday the 8th February 2012, the Irish Brokers Association is meeting with the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection & Education to express a view that private pension funds can play a pivotal role in the economic recovery.
Minister Noonan has publicly announced tha
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30
November
2011
We have heard many commentators recommending various “safe havens” in recent months ranging from currencies like the Swiss Franc or the Canadian Dollar to German Bonds and bank accounts with Rabobank.
The downgrading of Rabobank by Standard & Poors from AAA to AA is just an
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