Wine & Spirit International October 1999 For all the sabre rattling, intra-EU duty free has ended not with a bang, but a whimper. Gerard O’Kane reports on the uneasy silence in travel retail lounges The EU can hardly have been unaware of the possible effects of the end of European duty free. Some of...
FINANCIAL TIMES MANDATE, MAY 1999 Global players see moves by pension funds to stricter corporate governance as new business opportunities. Gerry O’Kane reports While wrestling with issues of corporate governance in the context of global custody and pension fund management is not for the faint hearted, players in this market are more than happy...
Financial Times Mandate May 1999 Gerry O’Kane It may be a new issue for custodians but the pan-European pension resurrects the word most commonly associated with custodial operations: consolidation. The most recent example of the traditional consolidation was the Bank of New York (BONY) deal setting itself to become the world’s largest global custodian...
Second Quarter 1999 The world is now several months into the dawning of the age of the Euro. Lately, however, the argument has been that it has not provided Europe with the new age of enlightenment that was widely expected. Here Feature Writer Gerry O’ Kane, talks to some of Europe’s leading economists to...
Financial Times Mandate March 1999 Movement in Europe but the US houses will come out topAmerican giants such as Chase and Bank of New York are biding their time but will pounce once the European action slows. Deep pockets are needed for this game. Gerry O’Kane reports As wave after wave of fund house...
Benchmark – Performance Tracker March 1999 It wasn’t long ago that investors were failing over themselves to be invested in Eastern Europe. Predictably the fund companies launched the bulk of their products somewhere near the top of the market leaving most investors with burnt fingers. But as Feature Writer Gerry O’Kane finds, whether you...
Benchmark — Investment Funds of Asia First Quarter 1999 By Gerry O’Kane It is a financial instrument often mentioned but that few understand, including many of the professionals. This complex derivative is the instrument that destroyed Barings Bank. That is the bad publicity. The reality is that futures and its sister, options, are frequently...
Financial News 14 December 98 – 3 January 99 The government’s priority is to develop its equity markets, writes Gerard O’Kane The recent low volumes on China’s equity exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen are a poor reflection of just how active the nation’s power brokers have been in reforming China’s financial institutions and markets....
