Pioneering legislation drove ISIF to sell off most of its fossil fuel investments, but not all. Billions in private bonds and shares also continue to flow to the industry through Ireland.
The four things the state must do if its to regain the ability to do very hard things.
We need to move beyond the short-term obsession and the archaic constraints of our traditional budgetary approach. We need to make and win the case in Brussels for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and to fund the former separately.
Nick Corcoran grew up in Dublin’s inner city and his first job was selling vegetables from a van in Ballymun. Today, along with his business partner Nigel McDermott, he runs Cardinal Capital, a pioneer in the Irish alternative financing sector.
A new study says civil servants matter to infrastructure projects. When the state is investing billions on infrastructure, competent officials are a good 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.
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