Tom Clinch didn’t set out to run a wealth firm — he wanted a career in the creative industry. However, by marrying his two passions, he has transformed a €30m family business into a €700m player.
The introduction of a tax-incentivised savings and investment scheme in Ireland is a welcome step in diversifying Ireland's wealth. It will also create a new area of competition for banks, fintechs, and other financial institutions.
In 2021, the OECD called for a budget overhaul at the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council as funding shortfalls force the watchdog to scale back activities. A new bill is in train to act on the recommendation.
Stepping away from finance, I set out to travel in search of perspective – and found it in Durham, where ancient faith, industrial memory, and resilient communities meet.
For deep and ancient reasons, we hate uncertainty and fear change. But for the long-term investor, volatility is not risk. The desire to dampen it is a costly distraction.
As Simon Harris signals a new savings and investment strategy, it raises a serious question: Can Ireland build a culture of long-term wealth creation while penalising investors at every turn?
For years, investors and regulators asked asset managers to go green. A Trump-led backlash tells them it no longer matters, or not now. Flooding shows nature doesn’t seem to get the message.
For a country that built one global industry out of aircraft that rarely land here, the idea that its next significant leasing business might be in orbit should no longer feel out of this world.
The Government will want as high a price as possible for its shares in the last bank it owns, but there is more at stake in this sale for the Irish economy than just cash proceeds.
Francesco Ceccato, the Milan-born chief executive of Barclays Bank Europe, says his bank is firmly committed to Ireland, but likely to set up its EU headquarters in Paris.
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