GemCap Helps Out at St Michael’s House

We recently spent some time raising money and helping out at St Michael’s House, a Dublin-based organisation that provides support for people with intellectual disabilities. Here our Legal and Governance Manager Stacey O’Neill writes about her experience getting involved with the St Michael’s House leavers’ ball. When the team here in GemCap began discussing the […]
The Impact of Flexible Working on City Centres

This week, we’re sharing an article from GemCap CEO Conor Hoey, on the impact of flexible and remote working on city centres and finding a balance for flexible working teams. I read an extraordinary article this week about the impact of our new working lives on city centres. When in the US last year, I […]
Sohail Mered Joins GemCap as Head of Legal

We are delighted to welcome a new member of the GemCap team: Sohail Mered, who joins us as Head of Legal. Sohaïl joins GemCap from State Street Global Advisors where she served as senior legal counsel for nine years, advising its regulated investment firms in France and Ireland on all aspects of their EU institutional […]
Should Investing in Funds Be as Easy as Betting on a Football Game?

Thoughts from GemCap UK and Group CEO Stuart Alexander on the debate about making private funds accessible to investors, and the importance of advice and seeking professional guidance for investors. It’s all about advice I had a great time last week at Funds Congress in London, sponsored by Carne, Dechert’s and PWC. A worthwhile event […]
Affinity Launches Fund on GemCap Platform

GemCap are delighted to announce the latest fund to launch on the GemCap Investment Funds Plc platform. Affinity Private Wealth (Affinity) has launched the Affinity Sustainable Growth Fund, building on their successful 5-year track record of managing assets in this space. The Irish-domiciled UCITS solution is categorised as an Article 8 fund, as defined by […]
Bitcoin Reminds Us to Ask: ‘Where Is – And How Safe Is – My Money?’

GemCap UK Non-Executive Chairman Jonny Fry reflects on the lessons to be learned from the collapse of FTX and its effect on the way investors hold their assets. Life, as we know, is a constant lesson. Strangely, some lessons, no matter how painful, seem hard for many of us to grapple, to learn from and […]
Is the Digitalisation of $100trillion of Assets a Lifeline for Traditional Stock Exchanges?

GemCap UK Non-Executive Director Jonny Fry explores the benefits of digitalisation and tokenised assets for the asset management industry. The asset management industry is beginning to understand the benefits of digitalisation and is offering digital funds to investors. The underlying funds remain the same, but are made available in a digital wrapper. These new digital […]
Will Digital Currencies Wane or Flourish as Banks Adopt ISO 20022?

Another insightful article from GemCap UK Non-Executive Chairman Jonny Fry, on the introduction of ISO 20022 next year and how it will impact digital currencies. The introduction of ISO 20022 in March 2023 will be a huge upgrade for the way banks exchange information about payments. ISO 20022 will allow much more structured data to […]
Could Uncle Sam’s Greenback Be Replaced By a ‘Green-Backed’ Digital Currency?

GemCap UK Non-Executive Chairman Jonny Fry on the future of the US$ and what might replace it. For over 100 years the US$ has been the world reserve currency. Whilst its demise has been heralded many times, as with all things, at some time it will be replaced. But by what? Will Brazil, Russia, India, […]
Ciarán Whooley Joins GemCap Finance Team

GemCap is pleased to welcome Ciarán Whooley to the team this month. Ciarán joins us as part of the finance team and is the Designated Person with responsibility for Capital & Financial Management (PCF-39A), and will be providing cover for Cherie Quah. Ciarán graduated with a BComm and accounting post-graduate in UCD, trained with Arthur […]