The scope of change in funds and investment is captured as we advance further into 2021 by the contributions of seven leading figures in ireland’s funds industry, representing seven leading firms active in the Irish funds industry in this, the second issue of the Irish Funds Monitor. The challenges and opportunities arising through rapid tech and organisational change that is sweeping fund management is captured in their reponses to 10 contemporary questions posed by Finance Dublin in the first quarter 2021.

Fund managers and investors have for long anticipated the end of the pandemic, more or less since the end of Q1 2020, but the realisation now takes place with asset markets running at record levels and valuations, in the light of an economic and political outlook that the panel also address, ranging from topics including fintech within funds, organisation change after COVID, and consideration of new opportunities and challenges in private equity, and new asset categories including the likes of NFTs and cryptocurrencies.

The Finance Dublin Funds Monitor is about the global funds industry. But it also about an outward facing global jurisdiction - Ireland - where an exciting new product has just been introduced - the Irish ILP. This issue starts with the panel’s assessment of the ILP.

The Roundtable Contributors include: Meliosa O'Caoimh, Country Head - Ireland, Northern Trust; Claire O’Brien, Director, Global Client Coverage at RBC Investor & Treasury Services; Joanne McEnteggart, Managing Director of IQ-EQ Ireland; Brian Higgins, Partner, Asset Management and Investment Funds, Dillon Eustace & Karen Jennings, Senior Associate, Financial Regulation, Dillon Eustace; Ross McCann, Head of Fund Services in Alter Domus, Ireland; Tadhg Young, Executive Vice president, County Head – Ireland, State Street; Niamh Ryan, Partner, Funds, Simmons & Simmons, Ireland; Dirk Holz, Director, Head of Private Capital Services at RBC Investor & Treasury Services.