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Sustainable management of water resources

Submitted by Killian Nolan | Investment Manager RaboDirect on Wednesday, 1 September 2010 | Category: Investments

Over the coming years governments are going to have to introduce tougher environmental standards to ensure sustainable management of water resources across the world. So it doesn’t matter if you think you have an abundance of water or if it is a rare commodity each government will have to take a strict stance.

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Another solid performance for Rabobank!

Submitted by Roel van Veggel | General Manager RaboDirect on Thursday, 26 August 2010 | Category: General

It's great to know that RaboDirect is backed by our very solid parent bank, Rabobank. Mr Piet Moerland, the CEO of Rabobank today talked about some of the key highlights of the interim results for 2010, and it's all good news.

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Gary Connolly: A Guide to Investments

Submitted by Gary Connolly | Principal of i³Cubed on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 | Category: Investments

‘A guide to investments’ is a topic that has spawned thousands of books and articles, yet investing is an area which remains loosely understood by the great majority of us. It’s sometimes portrayed as an area of great complexity (mostly by those on the inside), but central to any investment decision are a number of easy to understand concepts.

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Mark Little on Starting a New Business

Submitted by Mark Little | Storyful.com on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 | Category: Business Savings

Mark Little, former RTE correspondent, took a chance, a leap of faith! He left the safety and glamour of the TV studio to set up his own business ... in the middle of a recession! Madness or method in his madness? He’s found it challenging and exhausting but his optimism is infectious.

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China’s ‘Revaluation’ : Don’t believe the hype, look to fundamentals

Submitted by Stephen Kinsella | University of Limerick on Thursday, 24 June 2010 | Category: Investments

The New York Times writes: The People’s Bank of China said that the Chinese economy was strengthening after the global financial crisis and that it was “desirable to proceed further with reform” of the currency, known as the Renminbi or Yuan. The announcement comes a week before World leaders gather in Canada for the Group of 20 and Group of eight summit meetings. A growing number of countries have been calling for China to let the Renminbi appreciate, including the United States, European nations and India, Brazil and Singapore in recent weeks. Forget this.

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5 years old and still growing

Submitted by Roel van Veggel | General Manager RaboDirect on Friday, 4 June 2010 | Category: General

At RaboDirect.ie we’re celebrating our 5th Birthday. We’re still relatively young, that’s for sure, but we’re part of a 100 year old very stable and very big global financial group, Rabobank...one of the few Triple A rated banks that has managed to weather the storm of the past two years.

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Regular Investing – the smart way to manage your risk

Submitted by Killian Nolan | Investment Manager, RaboDirect on Tuesday, 1 June 2010 | Category: Investments

2010 has been pretty volatile for equity markets and as a result many investors are standing on the side lines wondering what they should do next. Deposit interest rates are set to fall further in many of the Irish domestic banks and while equity markets had a good run in 2009 the same can’t be said for the first five months of 2010.

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Rabobank’s Tier 1 Capital Strong at 13.8%!

Submitted by Roel van Veggel | General Manager RaboDirect on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 | Category: General

Although not entirely unexpected, what an eye opener yesterdays announcements by NAMA proved to be. Finally, we now have greater clarity on the true value of loans that will be transferred to the agency and, as a result, a better view on the additional capital required to keep the Irish banks afloat. There’s no doubt that we’re now entering an extremely painful but necessary phase in the overall plan to get the banks in this country back to some degree of normality.

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SAM Climate Fund – You ask. We’ll answer.

Submitted by Gina McCrudden | Investments Marketing Manager RaboDirect on Thursday, 4 March 2010 | Category: Investments

The SAM Climate Fund has been very well received since we added it to the RaboDirect platform in September 2009 but sustainable funds are relatively new to a lot of us so we thought it might be useful to call on the experts and put your questions to them. So, if you’ve anything you’d like to ask about the Climate Fund, SAM or sustainability as an investment opportunity – now’s your chance. Drop us a line and we’ll shine a little light on the subject for you.

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We’re Open for Business

Submitted by Roel van Veggel | General Manager RaboDirect on Wednesday, 10 February 2010 | Category: General

There’s lots going on. With the big Irish banks fully occupied with NAMA, the smaller ones involved in merger talks, the announcement and immediate implementation of the Halifax withdrawal and the news that Northern Rock may possibly lift their 100% UK state guarantee, it has certainly been an eventful start to the year.