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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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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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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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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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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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2010 Outlook - an Irish Investor's point of view

Submitted by Gina McCrudden | Investments Marketing Manager RaboDirect on Friday, 8 January 2010 | Category: Investments

Irish investors remain gloomy about the outlook for the Irish economy according to results of our most recent RaboDirect Investor Barometer which shows that 85% of respondents are pessimistic about the economy’s prospects over the next 12 months. The survey of Irish investors also reveals that confidence in the global economy has held up with 58% of investors suggesting they have a positive outlook for the world economy over the next year.

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2009 was the year that wasn't

Submitted by Stephen Kinsella on Tuesday, 22 December 2009 | Category: Investments

The collapse of World credit markets, bailouts and nationalisation of banks across the globe and the Irish construction bubble bursting are just some of lowlights Stephen Kinsella touches on as he takes us through ‘The year that wasn’t’, but despite the 2009 hangover he’s still positive as we move into 2010. Find out why.

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Wow what a year!

Submitted by Killian Nolan | RaboDirect Investment Manager on Wednesday, 16 December 2009 | Category: Investments

The pessimists have had an absolute ball. Doom and gloom galore. And is it just me, or have we become a nation of debators - happy to grumble, complain and delay taking the hard decisions required to get us on the road to a sustainable recovery?

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Investing when interest rates are low – the update

Submitted by Killian Nolan | Investment Manager RaboDirect on Thursday, 22 October 2009 | Category: Investments

I was part of an internal training session recently and the chat from our call centre was that we’re receiving an ever increasing amount of calls from customers looking for alternatives to deposit accounts - hardly surprising really given the significant drop in headline rates available to customers.

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Sustainable Investing Q&A

Submitted by Gina McCrudden | Investments Marketing Manager RaboDirect on Thursday, 24 September 2009 | Category: Investments

Another super response from you on our Sustainable Asset Management Funds blog folks. We’re delighted at how well they’ve been received and want to thank everyone who has taken the time to send us a question. Christophe Churet, an Equity Analyst from SAM is merrily working away on replies to all your queries. We hope we’ve managed to shed a little more light on the funds for you but if you need any additional information don’t be shy....we’re only an email or phone call away. Question: Is there a metric for determining where the maximum value lies in a sustainable asset value chain e.g. water supply versus treated water delivery? Christophe: Good question. We think it’s really...