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Full coverage: investing

Sean Keyes on investing: Maybe private equity only works at first

There's a pattern with private equity: at first when it arrives in a country the returns are great, but they seem to fall over time. What does this say about capitalism?

Sean Keyes
5th Jul, 2023 - 4 min read

Can artificial intelligence help investors beat the markets?

Trying to beat the market is often a fool’s errand. AI can help sift through existing data like never before, but the real challenge remains to distinguish between signal and noise.

John Looby
19th Jun, 2023 - 5 min read

Devalued bonds and impaired Russian loans: Ukraine war’s billion-euro impact on Ikea’s Irish finance centre

Tit-for-tat economic sanctions and rising interest rates have taken their toll on the Dublin office managing the liquidity generated by Ikea retail stores around the world.

Thomas Hubert
2nd Jun, 2023 - 3 min read

Sean Keyes on investing: The Irish Stock Exchange has a London problem

CRH and Flutter are Ireland's two biggest companies, and they're both considering leaving the Dublin stock exchange this year. This is as much down to London as Dublin.

Sean Keyes
12th Apr, 2023 - 4 min read

Imagine if we treated savings and investments the way we treat property. It might help defuse the looming pension timebomb 

Beyond housing, our approach to saving and investment is primitive and punitive. Given that so many younger people are locked out of the housing market, we need to change our policies to encourage people to save, invest and build pensions.

Stephen Kinsella
2nd Feb, 2023 - 6 min read

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
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