This podcast episode is taken from a webinar held in conduction with AIMA on Thursday, 21 October entitled "The ILP - Ireland's New Closed Ended Private Funds Structure" 

The discussion covers Ireland's new private fund structure - the Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) how it compares to other onshore Limited Partnership structures in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as other trends in the private funds space.

AIMA host: Michael Bugel, Managing Director, Co-head of APAC, AIMA

Moderator: Paul Martin, Assurance and Regulatory Advisory AWM Director, PwC 

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This episode is taken from a webinar held on the 30th September and features industry leaders sharing their experiences to date in planning for a smooth return to the office, raising some key operational challenges they are seeing and also sharing some insights on potential technology innovations to assist with the process.

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This episode is taken from the FinTech Speaker Series webinar that was held on Friday, 17 September, which discussed the emergence of digital assets. The presenter is Lory Kehoe, an adjunct assistant professor in Technology Trends with Trinity College Dublin and Director, Digital Assets & Blockchain with BNY Mellon.

Introductions from Ciaran Fennessy, Citi and Q&A led by Michael Cartoscelli, BNY Mellon

As the lifting of restrictions across many countries gathers pace, this podcast will take a forwards look to potential economic developments over the second half of 2021, while posing the question if now is a good time to launch an Irish-domiciled fund. The discussion will briefly cover the options and features available to asset managers from both a UCITS and alternative perspective (including the Investment Limited Partnership) and the ease of accessing a global investor base using an Irish-domiciled structure. This was first broadcast as an Irish Funds webinar on 8 July 2021.

Moderator: Maria Ging, Director, BlackRock

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This podcast episode is a panel discussion from the Irish Funds Online Annual Conference on Wednesday 19 May and is entitled Generating Dividends through Diversity and Inclusion. The discussion is moderated by Diane MacFarlane, JP Morgan and features contributions from Stephen Hogan, Exogeny, Andrew Keating, CRH and Jayne Styles of the Diversity Project.

This episode features a panel discussion from the Irish Funds Online Annual Conference 2021 entitled “Embedding FinTech – no longer just a buzzword”, first aired on 20 May. Moderated by Paud O’Keefe, BNP Paribas, this features Marie Measures, SANNE and Alain Mandy of Wellington Management.

Keynote address from the Irish Funds Online Annual Conference featuring Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union. First aired 20 May 2021.

Keynote address from the Irish Funds Online Annual Conference featuring Derville Rowland, Director General Financial Conduct at the Central Bank of Ireland. First aired 19 May 2021.

This episode features a panel discussion from the Irish Funds Online Annual Conference entitled “ESG – from green shoots to full bloom” which first aired on Thursday 20 May. 

Moderated by Johnny Mattimore of First Derivatives, the panel features a discussion with Dr Tara Shine, of Change by Degrees, Sean MacHale of Bank of Ireland, Joanne McEnteggart , IQ EQ and Anna Driggs of ICI Global. 

At the recent Irish Funds Online Annual Conference, we featured a number of Keynote Addresses from high-profile international industry figures. In this podcast episode, we are delighted to welcome Shundrawn Thomas, President of Northern Trust Asset Management. Shundrawn discusses the drivers of accelerated developments over the past 18 months in asset management and is also joined by Pat Lardner, Chief Executive of Irish Funds to explore some of his key talking points, including the importance of compassion in leadership, embracing digitally-driven relationship management and what are the key attributes of an agile organisation.