Irish Funds Member Update - Spring 2024

Friday, 26 April 2024

New Members Welcome

A warm welcome to our most recent new members Ogier and First Derivatives. Our association is the voice of the funds and asset management industry in Ireland and represents 150 member companies.

We represent and advocate on behalf of fund managers, depositaries, administrators, transfer agents, professional advisory firms and infrastructure, technology and innovation specialist firms. Irish Funds and our members shape the industry through engagement with key policy makers and valuable services and activities. In 2023, we delivered:

50 submissions, consultation responses and guidance papers with the collective strength of 700 working group members.
320+ meetings with key stakeholders
38 events, webinars and roundtables
185 industry mailout updates
3,000 Member Portal resources
15+ hours of training and development sessions
An active online presence with 240 social media updates and 30K website visits

View the Irish Funds Activities & Services Overview

Recent Resources Available on the Irish Funds Member Portal

Members can log in or sign up to our Member Portal to view 3,000+ resources. Recent resources include:

Members Council – Welcome to our New Council Members

Congratulations and welcome to our newest Irish Funds Council Members following our Council elections earlier in the year:

John Maguire, BNY Mellon Fund Services (Administrator category)
Helen O'Beirne, Mercer Global Investments Europe (Asset Manager Category)
Daryl Byrne, Euronext Dublin (Infrastructure, Technology and Innovation Category)
Adrian Lyons, Accenture (Infrastructure, Technology and Innovation Category)

They join council members Colm McDonagh, Nicholas Blake-Knox, Terri Dempsey, Des Fullam, Andrea Kelly, Ken Lambe, Vanora Madigan, Fergus McNally, Eoin FitzGerald, Sarahann Duff, Iain Ferguson, and Adrian Mulryan.

Council members are elected for a three-year term and the Chairperson is selected from amongst the members of Council and serves for a one-year term. The Member’s Council is the voice of the industry in the Association and represents the collective interests of the membership. Council sets the strategy and direction of the Association and engages with members on key funds and asset management topics, initiatives and a wide range of areas. Learn more about our Council Members and Working Group Structure.

Thank you to all of the candidates who put themselves forward for the election.

Become a Signatory of Ireland’s Women in Finance Charter

Ireland’s Women in Finance Charter continues to make progress and now has 80+ signatories, representing over 55,000 employees in Ireland. We are delighted to announce that McCann Fitzgerald, PGIM Ireland and Prescient Fund Services Ireland have recently become signatories of the Charter.

Launched in April 2022, Ireland’s Women in Finance Charter means that for the first time ever, financial services companies, supported by the Government, have come together to ensure increased participation of women at all levels of their businesses. This includes junior, middle, and senior management, leadership and board roles within financial services organisations based in Ireland. Signatories are not just making a public declaration to make their businesses more gender balanced, they are committed as an industry to work together to set targets and timelines. This strategy to increase female participation will make our sector stronger – because more diversity means better decision making. Signatories to the Charter are stating publicly that gender equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of their strategies to make their businesses more successful. Find out more about how to participate.

Irish Funds members can start the process of signing up to the Charter by contacting us at WomenInFinance@irishfunds.ie

Financial Literacy Transition Year Programme

Irish Funds, with the support of our member firms have developed a robust modular, experiential and interactive financial literacy programme covering financial literacy, digital finance, sustainable investing and life competencies, delivered in the classroom by industry via six weekly sessions. This was successfully piloted in 12 schools nationally in six counties in the 2022/23 academic year and in 2023/2024 now live in more schools, a more diverse population and in more counties in the current academic year we grew the programme with 18 schools signed up across 10 counties with delivery to over 500 students.

We are delighted that Deloitte, a member firm, in sharing our vision, came on board this year as sponsors to the Irish Funds Financial Literacy TY Programme to support further development, new materials and future wider roll-out plans.

Read the latest TY Programme update.

Irish Funds Annual Global Funds Conference 2024 - Thursday, 23 May

The Irish Funds Annual Global Funds Conference will take place in-person on Thursday, 23 May. This event is a highlight in the international funds and asset management industry calendar and attracts over 500 professionals from across the industry. Join us at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre near Dublin Castle to hear from an impressive line up of speakers on a wide range of topics, including:

Will Artificial Intelligence Transform the Funds Industry?
Business Leaders Perspectives
New Trends in Cross Border Distribution
Beyond Neurotypical: Rethinking Talent in Financial Services
Regulatory Update 2024
Where Athletes Meet Analytics: Exploring High-Performance & Professional Success
Financial Literacy & the Irish Funds Transition Year Programme
Navigating /dis-ruhp-shuhn/
Quantum Leap – How Quantum Computing can drive Innovation in the Funds Industry
Evolution of ETFs: Driving Market Growth

View full agenda and speaker line-up.

Watch our video featuring highlights from last year's event:

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