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Investing

Companies

Venture capital firm Venrex backs Dublin mushroom coffee company OYL

The value of the ‘functional mushrooms’ market is forecast to grow to more than €50 billion by 2030
  • Charlie Taylor
  • March 5, 2023
Immigrant Investor Programme

‘Cash for visa’ scheme raised €1.25 billion but was fraught with controversy

Immigrant Investor Programme had been under review for years due to concerns over volume of Chinese applicants and possible fraud, before government moved to close it down
  • Barry J Whyte,
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 19, 2023
Morning Headlines

IDA investment fears over infrastructure deficit; New geothermal energy group set up

The stories you need to read this morning in business, politics and current affairs
  • Business Post
  • December 15, 2022
Investing

Teeling-backed mining firm posts £6.4m accumulated losses

Chairman says mineral exploration has ‘gone out of fashion’ as Botswana Diamonds reports £716,000 annual loss
  • Barry J Whyte
  • December 12, 2022
Transport

CitySwift plans to expand its successful New York City pilot transport scheme

Existing backers, including the family of Ryanair founder Tony Ryan, provide €5 million in further funds for Galway-headquartered transport tech company
  • Charlie Taylor
  • October 15, 2022
Investing

Pensions Authority to review fund rules after British debacle

The regulator says the recent panic in Britain has left Irish pension funds ‘unscathed’, but he will nonetheless ‘be looking at what lessons could be learned’
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • October 1, 2022
Investing

‘I’m not just another fan’: The Kerryman who tells Premier League stars how to manage their money

Patrick Foley, founder of Sonar Financial Services, has helped some of football’s most highly paid players, including Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Héctor Bellerín. He’s willing to have the hard conversations when necessary
  • Barry J Whyte
  • September 24, 2022
Big Read

Is the party over? Irish tech braces for a shock as the easy money dries up

For years, cash flowed freely and plentifully through the veins of this country’s tech industry, but with a potential global recession looming on the horizon, venture capitalists are ordering companies to tighten their belts and slash their costs. Can the sector avoid a full-blown crash?
  • Charlie Taylor
  • September 23, 2022
The Profile

Michael Burry, stock market sage extraordinaire

Hollywood blockbuster The Big Short detailed how the trading wizard Michael Burry predicted the great crash of 2008. Now he is prophesying an even greater tumble for the markets – and a possible revolution
  • Barry J Whyte
  • September 23, 2022
Investing

Irish co-founded Synova closes new €1 billion fund

Private equity firm with more than £1.7 billion in assets under management intends to back more Irish companies with Synova V fund
  • Charlie Taylor
  • July 30, 2022
Legal

Investors in immigrant visa scheme sue Huawen founder in Chinese court

One of Ireland’s biggest cash-for-visa brokers is now looking for backers for a five-star hotel with a golf course and luxury villas and apartments on Croatia’s Adriatic coast
  • Barry J Whyte
  • July 30, 2022
Investing

Superbubble: Is the ‘mother of all crashes’ on the horizon?

Feeding frenzies on property, tech and other stock reached delirious heights during the pandemic. But veteran investors have been warning for some time now that several bubbles are about to burst simultaneously, and that we could be heading into a historic period of uncertainty in the markets
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • July 30, 2022
Profile

Meet Ray Dalio, the corporate contrarian who’s ‘shorting Europe’

The founder of Bridgewater is the archetypal hedge fund creator: white, well-educated and idiosyncratic. Right now, the firm is shorting on some of Europe’s biggest companies, among them Adidas and Siemens, Bayer, BNP Paribas and Sanofi. But why?
  • Ellie Donnelly and
  • Barry J Whyte
  • July 2, 2022
investment

Conversational AI company Webio raises $4m

Webio assists clients in communicating with customers on sensitive subjects such as credit, collections and payments
  • Charlie Taylor
  • June 16, 2022
The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: ESG movement imploding after falling into the trap of believing its own publicity

The probe into German asset manager DWS has revealed a fatal flaw in the much-lauded concept of ethical investment: no one agrees on what it actually means
  • Vincent Boland
  • June 10, 2022
Companies

Canadian investor takes 3.5% stake in Hostelworld

A subsidiary owned by Prem Watsa has bought just over four million shares in the Irish hostel-booking company, at a cost of about £4m
  • Barry J Whyte
  • June 4, 2022
Tech

Fintech Circit raises €6.5m as it plans to double headcount

Dublin-headquartered company’s SaaS platform automates workflows for auditors, corporates and financial institutions
  • Charlie Taylor
  • May 22, 2022
Crypto

Ian Guider: Troubled times take the shine off crypto

Inflation, pandemic and war should be creating the ideal conditions for bitcoin and its ilk to thrive. Instead they’re behaving like any other risk assets
  • Ian Guider
  • May 20, 2022
investment

New syndicate aiming to back female entrepreneurs

The new syndicate, AwakenAngels, also intends to encourage more women to become investors
  • Charlie Taylor
  • May 15, 2022

Vincent Boland: Fall of Archegos could change how the stock market is played

The collapse of the hedge fund, which built a $36 billion house of cards, may be one catalyst among many for the most sweeping reforms of the stock market in decades
  • Vincent Boland
  • May 1, 2022

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