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NISABA, Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agribusiness in Sub-Saharan Africa – Bamboo Finance, a private equity firm specializing in investing in business models that benefit low-income communities in developing economies and Louis Dreyfus Holding, which owns a controlling stake in leading global agribusiness Louis Dreyfus Commodities, announced today a partnership to launch and jointly manage NISABA, a US$ 50 million impact investment […]

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Why Global Economic Growth Is Sluggish

There’s bullish talk about a coming pick-up in global economic growth, but for the moment, the signals are negative. Trends in the global economy look increasingly ominous. Global Economic Growth Global trade is sluggish. In the first four months of the year, it rose only 2 per cent in volume terms, fell 12 per cent […]
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Levy Restaurants UK ready for Kidzania

Levy Restaurants UK, the sports, leisure and hospitality sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has secured a contract with KidZania London, the UK’s first educational entertainment experience opening this spring at Westfield London. The contract will see Levy Restaurants UK provide public and event catering at the venue, developing and investing in four areas; […]
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Outperformers likely to continue outperforming

Continuing to ourperform – outperformers. This article follows on from, Book value to market price, wherein what successful investors use heuristics to shape their strategic decisions, was mentioned The FT’s James Mackintosh reported recently: “Momentum has been the most rewarding bet of the past 40 years. It beat the market and outperformed other popular investment […]

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Europe is once again sliding into crisis

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Europe: “Grexit” – the risk that Greece will exit from the Eurozone and trigger a break-up of the single-currency club – has reappeared on the radar of global markets. Further east, Russia is escalating the conflict with Europe over the Ukraine – which is going to get worse. And across the continent, the political dominance of old elites is coming to an end with the rise of radical new parties. [Read more…]

Irish Stock Exchange Publishes Review of 2014

The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has today published its review of 2014, during which the ISE consolidated its position as a leading global centre for debt and funds listings and three new IPOs raised a combined total of €484 million for companies listing on the ISE. Chief Executive Deirdre Somers said 2014 was another strong […]
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Retirement Savers to Consider Property Investing

Pension Regulation Changes Cause a Third of Retirement Savers to Consider Investing in Buy-to-Let Property New analysis by Direct Line for Business (DL4B), the small business insurer, reveals that a third (32 per cent) of people aged 45 – 64 with a pension would consider using some or all of their pension pot to fund […]

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Jobs in Small Businesses Predicted

The Local Enterprise Office in Fingal has predicted that 75 new jobs will be created by award-winning small businesses in the region. The announcement was made during Fingal Enterprise Week, as finalists in the Fingal Enterprise Awards and the inaugural “Best Young Entrepreneur” competition received awards for enterprise in Malahide this week. In total, seventeen […]
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Eurocrats a Deadly Enemy

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Over-regulation is the enemy of economic growth, and in the European Union, where power rests with unelected Eurocrats, it is the most deadly enemy, Robin Mitchinson writes in his blog*. [Read more…]

Bond Yields Fall to a 500-Year Low

Jeffrey Gundlach, the American fund manager who correctly forecast the surge in bond prices this year, contrary to the overwhelming majority of the experts who got it wrong, remains fundamentally pessimistic about economic growth in the US. He predicts that quantitative easing, the easy-money policy that the Fed is now running down, could well be […]
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