Asset allocation looks at the question of how much of one’s savings one should invest in different asset classes. There are four main asset classes (cash; bonds; equities; property) and a growing band coming under the name of ‘other’ (includes metals, oil, agricultural products and hedge funds). At times, the decision about which asset you [...]
There’s no doubt about it, the Irish mammy is a formidable force. And the Irish mammy of a son is a particularly formidable force. Add into that equation that the son is a big, lumbering 18-year-old and the mammy is a pocket-sized fusspot and it makes for nothing short of pure entertainment. If you want [...]
At the tail end of the second miserable summer in a row, we hope that we might be delivered into a glorious Indian summer or even a vaguely decent one, where we can have evening barbeques in green, scent-filled garden surroundings. But balmy weather – if it were ever to show – would only be [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at the launch of the stables of the Provost’s House in Trinity College as a new research centre. At the end of Grafton Street, just inside the railings of Trinity College bordering Nassau Street, is a long, grey building that looks like it might just be an ESB sub-station. You see [...]
Giovanni Morelli talked to wine-makers in Italy this summer and sent us this from his Italian idyll in August. Sitting on the terrace watching a fat lizard lazily sunning himself, I know that if I make the slightest move, he will scuttle quickly under a stone or into a crack in the rocks. I’m not [...]
Berna Cox writes that thieves can take a lot more than simple possessions when they strike — leaving the victim feeling helpless. However, as bad as it is to be robbed, it’s much worse when violence is used in the course of the theft. According to figures recently published by the CSO for the second [...]
Conor White examines the stock prices of Bayer and Colgate and finds them both to be in good shape, despite the challenges of the current economic climate BAYER E52.79 Bayer is a diversified group consisting of three primary businesses: Healthcare, Crop Science and Material Science. Healthcare accounts for 46 per cent of group sales and [...]
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