TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian insurer Sun Life Financial’s (SLF.TO) asset management unit is eyeing its first middle-market private-debt acquisition as it seeks to expand into the higher-yielding investments, one of its top executives told Reuters. “Right now, our capability is really focused on the investment grade part of the private debt market,” Randy Brown, head […]

We have a housing crisis and health service problems because we have failed to plan. In another generation, we risk having a pension crisis for failure of planning. Amid the noise of an election auction, we now seriously risk losing our way over the pensions issue. We badly need to strip out the noise and […]

Some women, when they settle down and have children, want to stay at home and cook and clean and mind the house while their husbands go out to work. That ought to be unremarkable, since it’s the way people have lived for countless generations, but it still appears to be controversial when a woman in […]

We all have our own troubles. Leo and Micheál are battling away in the cage for the title of Taoiseach and me, well, all I’m worried about is dressing up like Dolly Parton. I dressed as a woman once before and it was for a panto. It’s not easy being a woman, what with all […]

As we rush about busy being busy and staring into our phones, are we losing the ability to listen to each other? I recently met a friend for a coffee and a catch up. She arrived late and was on the phone as she sat down opposite me. She mouthed ‘sorry’ but continued with her […]

(Reuters) – German media company Axel Springer SE (SPRGn.DE) publisher of Germany’s Bild newspaper, said on Thursday it planned to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as part of a 63 euros per share takeover by U.S. private equity investor KKR. Springer has said that once private, it hopes to gain greater freedom to build […]

For every reaction, the laws of physics say, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And so it is with feminism; the further women get in their pursuit of equality, the more we yearn to return to the past. Or some of us do, at any rate, which brings us to the #tradwife hashtag sweeping […]

The two men in the Trump administration in charge of setting America’s global priorities are crisscrossing the Middle East this week, dividing up an already deeply divided region, trying desperately to separate fact from fiction and establish some sense of just where their nation’s priorities are going, how the United States might get there, and […]

A sincere thank you, Leo, for rescuing us from the dreariest, most boring and penniless periods of the year. Marooned, as we were, in an endless vista of ‘Megxit’, Trump impeachment and Storm Brendan debris, you arrived with the best 2020 gift anyone could ask for – a three-week, gloves-off, no-holds-barred bout of politician bashing. […]

In the next 30 years Ireland’s population will increase by more than 1.5 million to around 6.5 million people. By 2050, almost 1.6 million will be aged 65 or older, up from 630,000 at Census 2016. The number of those aged 80 or older is set to rise even more dramatically, increasing almost fourfold to […]