Podcasts from Irish Funds

Recorded live at the Irish Funds 8th Annual UK Symposium which took place in London on 11th November 2021, this episode features a keynote address from Jonathan Lipkin, Director, Policy, Strategy and Research with The Investment Association. 

To mark the inaugural European Retirement Week from 29 November 2021, the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) and Irish Funds hosted a joint webinar with a panel of experts looking at the future of European pensions, and how they are tackling sustainability and incorporating stewardship as fiduciary investors on behalf of clients.

Moderator: Jerry Moriarty, IAPF

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Closing Remarks: Pat Lardner, Irish Funds

Recorded live at the Irish Funds 8th Annual UK Symposium which took place in London on 11th November 2021, this episode features a panel discussion entitled ESG – What do investors want? 

Moderator: Paul Stillabower, RBC Investor & Treasury Services

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Recorded live at the Irish Funds 8th Annual UK Symposium which took place in London on 11th November 2021, this episode features a keynote address from Olivier Etienne of HSBC, Jersey, who outlines the impact of an adult diagnosis of autism and how he is using this to educate his colleagues and create a more inclusive and understanding workplace for him and others with this condition. 

This podcast is taken from FinTech Working Group Speaker Series webinar from Friday, 22 October entitled “Effectual Innovation – changing how we innovate.”

Some businesses have the vision but fail to execute. Others can execute but lack the vision. What is the solution? The session is about how organisations can adopt the principles of effectual innovation to re-invent their value positions, architectures, and offerings. Effectual innovation is about starting small, bootstrapping existing resources, but aiming big to create an organic shift in mindset, skill-set, behaviour, and ultimately culture.

Introductions: Ciaran Fennessy, Citi

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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.