Tag: Portfolio Manager

The exceedingly popular government asset management jobs

The National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) is on the hunt for a new investment director, and NAMA is in the process of building its portfolio management team. Comparatively speaking, this is a flurry of hiring activity for the country’s asset management sector, and recruiters are expecting competition to be stiff. In a rather understated job [...]

By Paul Clarke, 28 January 2010 • 0 comments

Ireland’s stockbrokers open to recruitment once again

When things started looking a little shaky in Irelands’ financial services industry last summer, the large domestic stockbroking firms were among the first to announce redundancies. But, after a period of retrenchment, there are signs they’re looking to grow once again. NCB Stockbrokers are on the hunt for equity analysts in both Dublin and London [...]

By Paul Clarke, 27 October 2009 • 0 comments

Frozen pay and smaller bonuses for Irish financial sector

Irish financial sector workers will face a year of static salaries and shrinking bonuses in 2009, according a new salary survey. The survey, the latest from recruiters Brightwater, understandably paints a quite different picture to this time last year, when those in financial services were experiencing rapid pay hikes as firms tussled over a limited [...]

By Paul Clarke, 25 November 2008 • 0 comments

Bank of Ireland to build new fund management team

Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) is looking to bolster its team for Eire’s first social infrastructure fund, but elsewhere fund management hiring has reached snail’s pace. The fund, due to be launched this year, will invest in private finance initiatives, public private partnerships, renewable energy, roads and light rail, according to its managing director, [...]

By Paul Clarke, 29 May 2008 • 1 comment

Why are Ireland’s banks still hiring private bankers?

Either HSBC doesn’t listen to the news or it knows something about private wealth that Ireland’s central bank doesn’t. Just a week after the central bank warned growth will slow from 5.3% in 2007 to 2.5% in 2008, HSBC announced a new private bank in Eire. Rose Tormey, a portfolio manager at Goodbody’s Private Wealth, [...]

By Henry Harington, 29 April 2008 • 1 comment

Counting the cost of the equity fallout

Weather report from the equities recruiting front in Ireland: it’s freezing. Irish equities have had a torrid time over the last seven months. They lost €8bn in the latter half of 2007 as jitters over the health of the Irish economy took hold, and a further €4bn in January amid the turmoil over a possible [...]

By Paul Clarke, 29 January 2008 • 0 comments