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Freelance financial writer open for business

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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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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 shifting economic and socio political geography of the region. Only five years ago there was an acceptance in most of the international banking community with operations in the Middle East,...

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Currency ETFs: Opening up investment opportunities with new layers of diversification

Currency Investor Summer 2010 Most investment portfolios would have been happy to get returns of over 40% for the financial year 2009. And that, according to Nik Bienkowski, Managing Director of ETF Securities, would have been what you would have got had you bought an Australian dollar ETF last year and paid in US...

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Hedge funds shaken up

March 2010 FT Mandate The ghost of Bernie Madoff is haunting fund managers, causing a chain reaction of transparency, regulation and a greater administrative role. In the past two years, the hedge fund management business has been shaken up like never before, with redemptions on an unprecedented scale, fund closures, asset values dropping and...

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Global players circling private equity firms

FT Mandate, March 2009 There are huge opportunities in private equity, but can boutique houses offer the services and security that are in demand? By Gerry O’Kane. You can almost hear the increasing pitter-patter of the administrators’ heartbeat when they speak about private equity prospects in 2009. While much is made of a grinding...

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Adapting to a changing landscape

FT Mandate, March 2009 The dire economic situation towards the end of 2008 saw asset-servicers battening down the hatches, but now the institutions have to convince their clients that they provide a safe haven in these troubled times. By Gerry O’Kane. If 2007 was a relatively low-key year for the asset servicing industry, with...

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Confused messages and idiot policies damaging economy

Finance Week, 13/01/2009 The latest interest rate cut is unlikely to help British business until people who work in offices actually do their jobs properly. While everyone closely watches Gordon Brown’s bizarre decisions, too many businesses allow idiots to stay in charge. Doing nothing at work is not a solution in this environment. Gerry...

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Stupidity and negligence: do they explain Madoff’s risky business

Finance Week, 16/12/2008 Here we go again, ‘there shall be a weeping and gnashing of teeth’ heard globally as pension funds, charities and banks lament the loss of billions of pounds because Madoff was a crook. Sorry ‘alleged’ crook. While the Securities and Exchange Commission will certainly be puckering up because no matter how...

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Alternative ways to boost working capital

FinanceWeek, 27/11/2008 Financial journalist, Gerry O’Kane, says British companies are historically poor at improving working capital. Finance Week figures show they are increasingly looking to factoring and asset-based lending to boost their cash flow. Here we look at cash management  and warn poor payers may cost more than you think. Figures for how efficient...

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How to approach working capital

Finance Week, 31/10/2008 Many British businesses are ignorant of working capital and need to understand forecasting, cashflow and the financial supply chain. But there are solutions to both ignorance and problematic working capital. Gerry O’Kane talks to working capital expert John Mardle. Tips on improving working capital  Examine the financial supply chain deeper Be...

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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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