Full coverage: Investment

To avoid having to pay much more taxes in 2050, Ireland should recruit workers. Our current posture — surprised and inconvenienced by population growth — is the worst of all worlds.

At a conference in The Central Bank, policymakers came together to discuss the best way to design Ireland's proposed sovereign wealth fund.

For a long time, I have been trying to simply and succinctly underline the role that private equity and large institutional funds play in our day-to-day lives. “Our Lives In Their Portfolios” is possibly the most beautiful way of describing something that has the potential to be so nefarious.

Sligo-born Deirdre McGettrick swapped a corporate finance career to found Ufurnish, the UK's largest furniture comparison site. She talks to The Currency about purposefully bringing female investors on board and shifting the business plan through a turbulent market.

Putting real power in the hands of women is creating a system where they can start and own their own companies. That requires a seismic rethink in how VCs and our state development agency provide funding.

Coillte’s decision to raise investor funds through the asset management firm Gresham House has re-lit a passionate debate on forestry. We interview the central people involved at the state-owned company and its two PPP private partners.

As trade routes between Ireland and the continent are redrawn to avoid Britain, France has never felt closer – and its modernising economy is attracting a growing volume of business to and from this island. Thomas Hubert reports from Paris.

From its offices in South Co Dublin, Blacksheep Fund Management manages hundreds of millions of dollars. An analysis of its filings in both Ireland and the US provides insights into its profitability, bonus structure and market strategy.

Behind a leafy façade in Georgian Dublin, a small team has been instrumental in directing global institutional investors towards Irish property development. Based on hundreds of documents, site visits and insider information, this investigation tells Ardstone’s story.

When the housing crisis emerged, Ardstone Capital had an address book full of international investors and no baggage from the Irish property crash. In the past six years, it has discreetly funded every possible type of home in the country.