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2022’s pullback has been comparatively modest, but ordinary investors are clearly unnerved

Stocktake: Fund managers still bullish on stocks

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
January 25, 2022, 00:00

Investors are more overweight stocks than bonds than any time since February 2011

Nobel economist Robert Shiller’s excess Cape yield, which considers both equity valuations and interest rates, suggests US stocks are,at worst, only slightly expensive. Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images

Stocktake: Just how expensive are US stocks?

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
January 25, 2022, 00:00

Take low interest rates into account and the valuations start to look more reasonable

Surging bond yields have tended to pressure stocks over the following six months. Photograph: iStock

Stocktake: Surging bond yields spook investors

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
January 25, 2022, 00:00

Bumpy ride lies ahead as speed of market U-turn is notable

Goldman Sachs is concerned at the size of its pay bill. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/File Photo/Reuters

AIB finds itself basking in odd company

Financial Services
January 24, 2022, 17:24

Which is the better bet: the Irish bank or Goldman Sachs? It’s not that clear-cut

BBC Broadcasting House: the UK television licence fee is 17% higher than it was in January 2008, when the Irish rate last increased. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Irish politicians have more in common with Tory Nadine Dorries than they think

Media & Marketing
Laura Slattery
January 24, 2022, 16:01

Undermining of public media here less overt than attacks on BBC, but outcome is the same

The State’s ambitious Housing for All plan aims to deliver 90,000 homes by 2030. Photograph: iStock

5:47 Time for reality check on State’s capacity to build social housing

Economy
Conall MacCoille
January 24, 2022, 05:33

Challenge is no longer funding, it’s delivery of largest social housing project

Perhaps it is not so hard to imagine that workers burnt out by today’s revolution in technology might be more productive if the two-day weekend stretched to three

4:20 Pilita Clark: Get ready for the four-day working week

Work
Pilita Clark
January 24, 2022, 05:31

Younger managers are a lot more interested in the four-day working week than the older leaders they are on track to replace

Cat Butler of Naked Collective, a healthy drinks company.

‘Too often, clothes bought online disappoint me, so I don’t do that any more’

Personal Finance
Tony Clayton-Lea
January 24, 2022, 00:00

Me & My Money: Cat Butler, co-founder, Naked Collective

Richard Bernstein Advisors (RBA) warned the Nasdaq could suffer a 50 per cent decline in 2022. Photograph: iStock

Stocktake: Technology stocks take a beating

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
January 24, 2022, 00:00

Allocations to technology stocks have fallen to lowest levels in 13 years

All 15 sectors that comprise Irish consumer prices registered price growth in the past 12 months.

It won’t take long before the ‘rip-off Ireland’ mantra begins again

Economy
Eoin Burke-Kennedy
January 23, 2022, 17:05

The cost-of-living squeeze is likely to raise the political temperature

Many people who are waiting to join a pension auto-enrolment scheme and every year lost in building up savings will mean less to pay out in retirement

Is pension auto-enrolment happening at all?

Personal Finance
Dominic Coyle
January 23, 2022, 14:44

Q&A: People are waiting to decide what they should do about pension savings

One4All, and others, have been charging fees on unused balances for years

Fees charged on employee bonus ‘gift vouchers’ leave a sour taste

Retail & Services
January 22, 2022, 05:55

One4All caught in a storm for charging €1.45 a month on unused balances after a year

In Beijing, people sit on a bench overlooked by Olympic mascot Bing Dwen Dwen (left) and Paralympic mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP

Princess Rita, the burner phone Olympics and why it’s game on for Microsoft

Economy
Laura Slattery
January 22, 2022, 05:37

Planet Business: ‘Back-up planners’ and ‘self-love seekers’ welcome

Transfer of the National Symphony Orchestra to the NCH was recommended by an RTÉ-commissioned report four years ago. File photograph: The Irish Times

RTÉ’s cost savings update won’t be music to everybody’s ears

Media & Marketing
January 22, 2022, 05:30

‘Mixed emotions’ on National Symphony Orchestra’s move may resurface with future cuts

Unilever has been struggling to grow its sales partly, according to Bank of America analysts, due to management that is ‘overly focused’ on profitability and unwilling to step up investment

After its ‘near-death experience’, where does Unilever go from here?

Markets
Joe Brennan
January 21, 2022, 15:35

Joe Brennan: Behemoth has been struggling to grow its sales at same pace as rivals

As the Government’s Housing for All policy aims finally to comprehensively address the ongoing housing crisis, funding remains a key stumbling block.

Credit union money finally seems to have found a home

Financial Services
January 21, 2022, 13:25

Business Comment: Asset manager Gresham House is tapping funds to help build or acquire property for social housing

Chief executive of Gowen Group Mick Dwan: ‘If I was in a pure electric car – and I drive around the country – I would be a little nervous about the car going to Cork or to Belfast.’ Photograph: Dara MacDónaill/ The Irish Times

Gowan motors chief takes dim view of stalled new-car supply

Retail & Services
Michael McAleer
January 21, 2022, 12:49

Interview: ‘No heads have rolled. Someone got it wrong,’ says dismayed company boss Mick Dwan

Simon Lenihan with one his Swedish stallions which he uses to extract timber in an environmentally friendly way

The Limerick forester whose craft ‘fascinated’ the queen

Work
Joanne Hunt
January 21, 2022, 05:44

Wild Geese: Simon Lenihan’s ecological logging company has impressed environmentalists and royalty

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