Freelance financial writer open for business

July 22, 2011

Welcome to financial-journalist.co.uk. This site simply acts as a shop window of writing, research, broadcast production and general project work. I am available for interesting projects, especially as a financial specialist, at realistic rates. More recently I have also been invloved in innovation projects, clean and green business and technologies, but normally with a...

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China’s solar industry: a fine state of affairs

March 31, 2012

2011 was a rough year for China’s solar power manufacturing industry and has been seen to come home to roost in the recent round of 4th quarter result announcements. Gerry O’Kane has been sifting the figures and looking at developments in the solar market...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

March 2, 2012
Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets moves erratically, reflecting the hot and cold attitudes of investors, there is a growing realisation that poor currency management can...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

February 24, 2012

Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they paid for the currency management...

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FBI investigates reverse merger advisors

February 6, 2012
FBI investigates reverse merger advisors

CleanBiz.Asia, February 06, 2012 Problems for Chinese companies which listed on the US exchanges through reverse mergers, many of which are in the clean tech sector, are set to...

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China CleanTech Index dropped 48 percent in 2011

January 17, 2012
China CleanTech Index dropped 48 percent in 2011

CleanBiz.Asia, January 17, 2011 By: Gerry O’Kane While recent share news saw some of China’s solar companies making gains in recent days, the China CleanTech Index lost 48 percent...

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Burma’s intriguing power game beckons clean biz investors

January 13, 2012

Follow the Money CleanBiz.Asia, January 13th, 2012 Gerry O’Kane There is an intriguing fight developing between clean and renewable business and non-green industries in Burma. In a very public...

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China should be encouraged away from cleantech espionage

January 4, 2012

Follow the Money CleanBiz.Asia, January 4th, 2012 In all the rush and stupor of the Festive Season there were a couple of intriguing stories that didn’t get the notice...

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Cleantech IPOs sweat but private equity could come up trumps

December 13, 2011
Cleantech IPOs sweat but private equity could come up trumps

Follow the Money December 13th, 2011 Gerry O’Kane The cleantech business must be worrying what the news of Haitong Securities pulling its USD1.7 billion Hong Kong initial public offering...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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