European Equities press briefing hosted by Head of European Equities to discuss current valuations and misconceptions in the market and opportunities for 2012. Five journalists attended and the briefing generated three news pieces and an additional interview for further comment.

Industry Profile – Jean-Francois Guillon, CEO

Pensions Outlook press briefing hosted by Managing Director of MS Alternative Investment Partners to discuss volatility, inflation and risk. Eight journalists attended and the briefing generated three news pieces and two additional interviews for further comment.

Standard Chartered back Africa Renewables’ Biomass Export Project.

The firm’s US CEO Luis Sanez speaks to John D’Antona about Russian firms giving US investors access to its frontier markets.

Clear Path Analysis promoted its latest report ‘Re-Domiciling and Co-Domiciling for Fund Managers’ to specialist financial media.

Partner Pat Burke discusses the findings of the Grant Thornton 2012 International Business Review

The DCU Ryan Academy has chosen the next six start-ups for the 2012 Propeller Venture Accelerator Programme.

News coverage of Dillon Eustace’s Asian expansion, facilitating both Asian asset managers and International managers across Hong Kong.

FTfm Supplement ‘Investing in Commodities’ – Soft Commodities feature

European Fund and Asset Management Association Annual Investment Management Forum 2011

Discussed were the key issues facing the European fund industry and EFAMA’s priorities for 2012 onwards. A large number of delegates attended and speakers included Claude Kremer, President of EFAMA, Massimo Tosato and Christian Dargnat, Vice-Presidents along with a number of other leading figures from across the global fund industry.  Two communiques were issued by EFAMA during the conference which highlighted major events affecting the industry including EFAMA’s response to a potential Financial Transaction Tax.

Building blocks for business success: Institute of Directors and Grant Thornton launch new corporate governance guide for private companies.

Director of Forensic Services in Grant Thornton Andy Harbison comments on the risks for online shoppers this Christmas season

Irish Exporters Association annual exporters survey sponsored by Grant Thornton. Commentary from Partner, Patrick Burke.

CEO of the DCU Ryan Academy Ann Horan discusses the outlook for innovation and entrepreneurship for 2012

The startup companies from the first year of DCU Ryan Academy’s Propeller Venture Accelerator are profiled on RTE’s Nationwide programme

CEO of Love Home Swap Debbie Wosskow discusses the popularity of home swapping in Ireland

Saba Capital opens new UK headquarters and appoints Throgmorton for its back office services

Comment on Easyjet/UK Defence deal

Grant Thornton Partner Tony Thornbury comments on Aviva’s decision to relocate shared services staff outside of Ireland

Applications close for the second year of the DCU Ryan Academy’s Propeller Venture Accelerator Programme for startup companies

Grant Thornton Partner Peter Vale comments on the publication of Ireland’s October Exchequer figures

Jarrod Quigley, portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, discusses the pros and cons of multi strategy funds for a monthly series on hedge fund strategies for FTfm

Pierre-Francois Filet, CEO and co-founder of QuantHouse was recently interviewed by the Financial Times for a profile in its Exchanges, Trading and Clearing Special Report

Pierre-Francois Filet, Co-founder and CEO of QuantHouse discusses the growing role of automatic FX trading

Brian Higgins, partner at Dillon Eustace comments on the revised version of the strict liability rules for depositories in the first draft of the alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) directive

Fine Gael TD and member of Committee for Education, Jobs and Social Protection Anthony Lawlor attends DCU Ryan Academy Open Day.

AIRVOD provides a variety of on demand entertainment solutions for Airlines around the world including commercial, regional and private.

At the Seattle APEX 2011 EXPO, AIRVOD announced that it will equip Omni Air International’s fleet of Boeing 777-200s with its in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems.

AIRVOD Entertainment also announced a new cooperation agreement with Canadian based cabin integration specialist Avianor. The new agreement will see AIRVOD and Avianor provide a “Pit Stop” service for airlines seeking to upgrade their IFE systems.

Anne Marie Scott, Participant Programme Manager at the DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, comments on the latest set of Irish unemployment figures

Dillon Eustace announces the opening of its new office in Hong Kong as demand for advisory services increases in Asia

QuantHouse announces its continued Expansion with new premises in London and senior appointments to the team.

Rapid Addition announces US-based Raymond James as a client for its FIX adapter.

Coverage of Otkritie’s 120% revenue hike and 40% headcount increase.

Pierre-François Filet, chairman and co-founder, speaks to Craig Drake about the three ways to get the ‘edge’ when it comes to high frequency trading.

Otkritie announces Mikhail Terentyev as a new consumer sector analyst.

DCU Ryan Academy graduates Margaret and David share their experiences on how the Academy’s Business Innovation Programme helped them to upskill and re-enter the workforce.

DCU Ryan Academy CEO Ann Horan discusses the Business Innovation Programme for people who are unemployed and looking to reskill on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show.

City AM’s Craig Drake speaks to Otkritie Capital, QuantHouse and Rapid Addition, for a feature on optimal locations for HFT systems

Grant Thornton Partner Bernard Doherty comments on the latest Irish Exchequer figures.

Grant Thornton Partner Cian Blackwell comments on the breach of patients’ information at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

DCU Ryan Academy launches the second year of its Business Innovation Programme.

DCU Ryan Academy graduates Alan, Grainne and Brian share their experiences on how the Academy’s Business Innovation Programme helped them to upskill and re-enter the workforce.

Rapid Addition announces US-based Johnson Investment Counsel as a client for its FIX engine product.

City AM’s Craig Drake speaks to Otkritie Capital, QuantHouse and Rapid Addition, for a feature on high-speed changes to FX trading

Dillon Eustace Partner, Conor Houlihan comments on the latest stress test results on the Irish banks.

QuantHouse announced the availability of its Direct Edge feed handler allowing algorithmic trading firms sub-millisecond access to America’s newest stock exchange

Grant Thornton Partner Cian Blackwell comments on the Sony Music Ireland website breach

Grant Thornton Partner Pat Burke highlights the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities with the launch of an international survey looking at levels of by companies in 2011.

Clear Path Analysis promoted its latest report ‘Inflation Hedging for Institutional Investors’ to national and trade media

Rapid Addition released details of its involvement with Latin America’s MILA project.

Otkritie announced the appointment of eleven new hires to its teams in London and Moscow.

Gary McCarthy, Head of Collins Stewart Quest providing stock recommendations on CNBC’s Squawk Box

Conor Houlihan, banking expert, commented on the bond holder situation on Irish banks.

Grant Thornton Partner Frank Walsh comments on the latest Irish exchequer returns

Grant Thornton Partner Michael McAteer appears on RTÉ’s current affairs show Primetime to discuss personal insolvency.

Clear Path Analysis promoted its latest industry report, ‘DC Pension Design & Investment’, to national and trade media.

Arrange press meetings for the head of Otkritie’s brokerage business in London at the annual TradeTech Europe conference.

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) published two own-initiative reports: the EFAMA Code for External Governance and the EFAMA Report on Responsible Investment.

Grant Thornton Partner Cian Blackwell launches the 2011 Corporate Governance Review of Irish-listed companies’ compliance with the Combined Code.

Grant Thornton Partner Micheal Neary launched an international survey looking at the number of businesses planning a merger or acquisition in 2011.

Grant Thornton Partner Cian Blackwell comments on the Sony Playstation network breach.

Grant Thornton Partner Cian Blackwell comments on the Nyberg report on the causes of the failure of the Irish banking system.

Andrew Rubio, CEO of Throgmorton, comments on London’s status as the centre of Europe’s hedge fund industry

Gary McCarthy, Head of Collins Stewart Quest, comments on the Portuguese bailout.

Gareth Jones, Commercial Director of Vireol – Bioethanol could be the answer to the EU’s environmental and economic problems

David Knibbs, chief executive of Vireol – UK wheat crop can expand to meet food and fuel demand

Gary McCarthy, Head of Collins Stewart Quest, comments on the stress test results at the Irish banks.

Press campaign around the first year anniversary of Nikko Asset Management’s groundbreaking World Bank green bond fund.

A press lunch briefing was arranged with target media including National, Pension and Environmental press and resulted in news pieces and profiles appearing in Financial Times, Investment & Pensions Europe, Environmental Finance, Responsible Investor, thewealthnet.com, European Pensions and Global Investor.

Grant Thornton Partner Jillian O’Sullivan marks International Women’s Day with the Grant Thornton Women in Business report

Otkritie Bank values Facebook at $76.4 bn

Grant Thornton Partners Paul McCann and Mick McAteer are profiled in a major business spread in the Irish Times on the state of insolvency practice in Ireland.

Hume Brophy’s client Betfair has launched www.electionpredict.com, a partnership between Betfair and Millward Brown Lansdowne, to provide the most-up-to-date polling predictions for Ireland’s General Election 2011.

Hume Brophy is proud to be supporting www.electionpredict.com by providing news and blog updates as General Election 2011 comes to life ahead of polling day on 25 February 2011. www.electionpredict.com can also be followed on twitter at http://twitter.com/electionpredict

Grant Thornton Partner Pat Burke launched the International Business Report 2011 which surveys over 11,000 businesspeople across 39 economies and compares Ireland to the rest of the world.

Future Capital Partners launch two funds – an EIS and a VCT – to capitalise on both the high growth potential of the renewable energy investment sector and the firm’s expert knowledge of clean energy investment.

Gavan McGuire joins Centaur Fund Services as Head of Business Development

Peter Vale and Oliver O’Connor analyse the tax changes contained in the Irish Budget.

Christopher Day of Merchant Capital, which offers a regulatory platform for hedge funds from around the world, comments on the current state of health of the Irish funds industry.

Peter Vale, Tax partner with Grant Thornton comments on November’s Government tax receipts ahead of the Irish budget on December7^th

OTKRITIE comments on Russia’s desire to become one of the world’s important financial centres. The reporter includes a profile on Roman Lokhov and a history of the business.

Pat Burke, Privately Held Business Partner with Grant Thornton, comments on the government’s four-year austerity plan and how it will affect the Irish economy.

Roman Lokhov, head of investment banking at one of Russia’s leading financial institutions, comments on financial reforms and assisting new technology start-ups for this special report.

Dillon Eustace, one of Ireland’s leading law firms, who advise clients from financial services, banking and capital market backgrounds comment on the legal challenge to the National Asset Management Agency.

Betfair CEO David Yu and Conor Lenihan TD, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation launch Betfair’s new office in Dublin and announce the creation of 100 jobs.

Gary McCarthy, Head of Collins Stewart Dublin & Quest, makes a recommendation on Bank of Ireland shares having analysed the stock using the Quest research tool.

First State Investments recently held media breakfast briefings for their Direct Infrastructure team, Listed Infrastructure team and Agribusiness team.

21 journalists in total attended these events ranging from national press, financial and infrastructure trades, wires and institutional.

Coverage from the events appeared in target publications such as Investment Adviser, FT Adviser, Fund Strategy, Reuters, Professional Pensions and Infrastructure Investor.

Grant Thornton Dublin recently hosted an international conference with Partners attending from over 28 countries  across the world. While in Dublin, they focused on the topic of challenges to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Tony Markwell, a Partner with Grant Thornton Australia, discusses the topic from an international perspective.

Pat Burke, Partner with Privately Held Business in Grant Thornton Ireland, refers the challenges facing SMEs in the current economic climate.

Charles Richardson, Chairman & Chief Executive and Co-Fund Manager of the Veritas Global Equity Income Fund, Veritas Global Focus Fund and Veritas Global Real Return Fund appears in FTfm’s manager profile

Mark Lazberger, chief executive of First State Investments and chief executive of Colonial First State in Australia, appears in FTfm’s face to face.

Conail Flynn, Director with the Financial Counselling team in Grant Thornton, discusses Government Tax policy in 2010 and outlines some of the options available to the Government for increasing revenue via new taxes and discontinuing existing reliefs.

Profile of Andy Headley, director of Veritas Asset Management and co-fund manager of the Veritas Global Focus Fund, Veritas Global Equity Income Fund and Veritas Global Real Return Fund.

Andy Harbison, Director with the  IT Forensics team in Grant Thornton, discusses the possible hacking of the CAO website, the company responsible for delivering the results of the Leaving Certificate, the national exam which decides what university course students can register for.

Press campaign around the 2^nd anniversary of Insparo’s Africa & Middle East Fund, to highlight fund performance and company growth over the preceding twelve months.  Profiles of the company and the fund appeared in Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Financial News, MENA FM, HedgeNews Africa and FINalternatives

Peter Vale, a Partner at Grant Thornton writes an opinion piece on possible changes to pension and inheritance tax in December’s (2010) budget.

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, President of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), the pan-European representative body, in interview with The Financial Times published on 19th July 2010, comments on the regulation of UCITS funds in the asset management industry.

Stephen Tennant, a Director at Grant Thornton, appeared on TV3 News on Monday (12 July) to give expert commentary on bankruptcy to Brian O’Donovan, TV3’s Finance Correspondent.

Media campaign based around the launch of a new trading platform that will allow foreign investors to execute trades on Russia’s Micex exchange without pre-depositing the cash or stock for the trade first.  Coverage of the launch appeared in publications such as Financial Times, Global Investor, Automated Trader and Emerging Markets magazine

Nic Clavel, CIO at Scipion Capital, appeared on CNBC to provide commentary in the lead up to the World Cup exploring what the potential economic impacts are for South Africa in 2010

A pre-GAIM International conference story looking at how the hedge fund industry can win back support and more importantly clients.

Ongoing management of the communications and public relations campaign for court-appointed Administrators (Grant Thornton) of Quinn Insurance Limited

To highlight a survey carried out by Grant Thornton International showing that Irish SMEs are calling for the implementation of a new accounting code.

Promotion of their commodities finance fund, originally launched in August 2007, which is a frontier market hedge fund that uses structured finance and asset backed lending to provide credit for companies and financial institutions operating in frontier markets. Since launch, the fund has returned 28.8% with positive performance in every month, making it one of the most successful CTF funds operating in the frontier market sector.

Support the QAT business unit promote and sell its flagship aviation security product to the UK and European business media and specialist aviation press, raising QinetiQ’s media profile and reputational reach and position CEO as a leading commentator.

The European Travel Retail Forum is the voice of European duty-free, a €3 billion a year industry. We strategically advise on and actively support the ETRC’s ongoing pan-European political and media engagement across a number of issues such as airport security, restrictions on liquids and gels and the impact of the Icelandic volcano.

Attract investment into the Future Fuels Partnership, on behalf of FCP, which is funding the construction of a £230mn renewable transport fuel plant in the North of England. The campaign promoted the social and environmental benefits of Future Fuels, as well the financial returns available to participants.

As part of the broader campaign to rebuild the reputation of the fund management industry throughout Europe, Efama produced a report covering the critical issues of addressing the long terms savings gaps in Europe as well as challenges in retail distribution of investment products.

Launch of the Nikko AM World Bank Green Fund, which will invest in World Bank bonds, which in turn support the financing of projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help countries adapt to the effects of climate change.