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Full coverage: investing

Sean Keyes on investing: Goodman, O’Brien and the allure of private hospitals

Denis O'Brien owns the Beacon Hospital, while Larry Goodman controls the Blackrock Clinic. So, what was the investment rationale for two wealthy tycoons to invest in private healthcare?

Sean Keyes
14th Dec, 2022 - 3 min read

Jurassic Park – part 2: The weird and wonderful work of buying and selling dinosaurs

The underground and self-contained world of the supply and demand of dinosaurs is full of more interesting and unique characters than Alice in Wonderland. And it is notoriously secretive, as I discovered on my journey into dinosauronomics.

Sinead O'Sullivan
13th Dec, 2022 - 11 min read

Belfry round two: “How did AIB decide to compensate some and not others?”

Retail investors dissatisfied with the redress scheme established by the bank to compensate some investors in the Belfry property funds have formed a new action group, opening a fresh front in an eight-year-old battle.

Tom Lyons
16th Nov, 2022 - 4 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: Five ways Musk could plug the $1.4bn hole in Twitter’s finances

To keep the banks off his back, Musk needs to find $1.4 billion or so. Here are five ways he might try to get there.

Sean Keyes
9th Nov, 2022 - 4 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: what’s roiling the technology industry?

The technology giants seem all-powerful. But the competition between them is vicious. What is coming down the line for the digital multinationals with large investments in Ireland?

Sean Keyes
2nd Nov, 2022 - 4 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: the return of the king

Having beaten the market for more than a century, the value factor suddenly disappeared after 2009. Now, there are signs it's coming back.

Sean Keyes
31st Aug, 2022 - 4 min read

RTÉ’s pension fund now makes more from investments than its stations from advertising

An RTÉ legacy pension scheme generated returns equivalent to the public broadcaster’s entire commercial revenue last year – and is on course to grow a significant surplus into the future. But how?

Thomas Hubert
5th Aug, 2022 - 6 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: Don’t let fear trash your returns

The urge to sell stocks when things get scary is powerful – and toxic for returns. Over a lifetime, it might cost you more than a third of your pot.

Sean Keyes
3rd Aug, 2022 - 4 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: Higher interest rates are no good for developers

Property development flourishes when there's a big gap between risk-free returns and property yields. Risk free returns are shooting up. How bad is this for developers?

Sean Keyes
20th Jul, 2022 - 4 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: A grand theory of why crypto is going down

The momentum factor is a cast-off from the rest of the financial economics literature. But it seems to explain the behaviour of crypto markets pretty well.

Sean Keyes
29th Jun, 2022 - 4 min read
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