A marauding gang of internet nerds has descended on the financial markets. It has already cost one hedge fund $3.75 billion, and it's not finished yet.
Colm Fagan is a retired actuary and former chairman of Standard Life International. He has a proposal for a pension system that does more, with less.
A guaranteed customer for your product makes you instantly bankable and government approval is a rubber stamp like no other. But the system is weighted towards multinationals, and not domestic businesses.
An accountant showed an average annual income of just €12,302 for ten years. Out of that, he managed to maintain a spouse, three privately educated school-going children and lived in a house complete with an indoor swimming pool which later sold for €10m.
In the ninth and final instalment of my guide to the financial markets, I am looking at stock investing, the threat to the dollar dominance and the challenges of low bond yields.
Along with blame, there must be accountability and that is why the State must now provide justice for the survivors of Mother and Baby Homes
The FAI has endured an existential crisis and, like all sporting bodies, it is also dealing with the consequences of the coronavirus, but if the association is to emerge in a better place, it can't have a bookmaker as its main sponsor.
The historic Kerry Co-op is in advanced talks with the wider food group to regain control of its domestic agribusiness. The deal is a high-stakes bet for the farmers, and part of a final focus on high-tech ingredients for Kerry Group.
Ireland's growing population gives it an opportunity to do something ambitious: create dense, liveable cities as good as the best in Northern Europe and Japan.
Since the start of the pandemic, the US Federal debt has ballooned. To implement many of the new administration’s longer-term objectives, Congress will have to find trillions in new spending capacity. And they will have to do this against all political odds and market sentiment.
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