with speaker Eoin Fahy, Kleinwort Benson

Eoin  is Chief Economist and Investment Strategist with Kleinwort Benson Investors, the Dublin-based institutional investment management company founded in 1980, and has been with the firm for more than 25 years.  He has responsibility for all macroeconomic and investment strategy issues, and provides forecasts for key macro and market variables to colleagues and clients.   He was appointed by the Government to be a board member of Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in 2001 and also to be a member of the Commission on Taxation in 2008. He is a member of the US National Association of Business Economists and the CFA Institute, and is a frequent contributor to the Irish media.

Eoin will discuss the outlook for the major economies, and Ireland, including the following issues:

• Interest rates are set to rise in the US – should we be worried?
• Can the Chinese authorities halt the downward slide of the Chinese economy?  
• Can the ECB prevent further deflation in the eurozone?  
• Will the Irish economy continue to grow at its current rapid speed?  
• What is the outlook for investment markets against this macro background?