McDonald's is the latest food business to announce a plant-based alternative for next year. We don’t know yet if shifts in consumer demand away from meat and dairy are a temporary fad or deep-seated trends. Either way, a public stake in this emerging industry would help manage what the future holds for Irish farmers.
The evidence and rationale that the market can be beaten is compelling. If successful, the power of compounding makes the active approach significantly more rewarding. But how does it all work?
Those who scoffed last week that a footballer’s death was leading the news bulletins would never scoff if ‘a poet’ or ‘a politician’s’ death received the same coverage. In doing so, they reveal only their own ignorance, their own failures of imagination and of what beauty can be.
Having been jilted at the altar by Bank of China, Goodbody has found a new suitor in state-owned AIB. But just how much will the bank pay for the broker, and what will happen around the vexed issue of bonuses and salaries.
Irish households’ savings have increased by nearly €5 billion so far this year. Where they spend it could decide the future of many businesses.
By unveiling a conditional €730m bid for the Irish-Swiss baked goods manufacturer, New York billionaire Paul Singer’s firm has triggered a chain of events that has already claimed its CEO. Three weeks from a crucial AGM, this is hardly the end of it.
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX is working on ambitious plans to bring fast and cheap broadband to the world – and he has just got an Irish licence. As the country prepares to invest billions in building broadband infrastructure, could there be another way?
In the first part of this series, I dealt with the Asset Risk spectrum. Today, I want to go further and delve into portfolio theory and the benefits of diversification.
Jack Charlton’s pragmatism accurately reflected the true relationship between Britain and Ireland, a relationship which, then and now, was more complex and interwoven than nationalism – romantic or murderous - would allow.
Alastair Blair, country managing director of Accenture and president of Ibec, argues that there is an opportunity for stakeholders in government, industry and education to come together and re-define Ireland in this new digital era.
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