Kieran Fox

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Kieran Fox

Last year the RFU's Tier 2 Board ran an open tender process to the whole game for any club, college or university to join the Championship - the level below the Premiership - for the 2025-26 season if they could meet the league's minimum operating standards and growth strategy. Worcester were admitted on a majority decision, but the Tier 2 Board said Wasps and London Irish were not in a position at the end of last year to meet the minimum criteria.

Jan 24, 2025 | mondaq.com | Mark Weir |Declan McHugh |Kieran Fox

Europe is home to more than 3,000 institutional investors,including some of the world's largest pension funds, renownedfor their market-beating investment strategies. Behind thesereturns are assets under management of more than €22 trillion,of which nearly €7.9 trillion (US$8.5 trillion) is inalternative investment funds ("AIFs"), making Europe thesecond-largest market for alternative investments globally behindthe United States.

Jun 19, 2024 | mondaq.com | Christina McCarthy |Declan McHugh |Kieran Fox

With 2024 has come new developments for alternative investment managers and the investors looking to allocate to long term asset classes. The update to the European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) fund structure, known as "ELTIF 2.0," came into force on 10 January 2024, with fund managers looking for new solutions on how to navigate the changes.

Feb 21, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Kieran Fox |Felicity Kvesic

Smart gumshields that record the forces involved in collision sports are being used in the men's Six Nations for the first time. The gumshields, which contain a chip to record gravitational forces, are being gradually rolled out in professional rugby union. Few doubt that represents a step towards helping to better understand collision sports, but some of the research has been questioned by concussion experts, and there are calls for further change. Here's what you need to know.

Feb 20, 2024 | medium.com | Kieran Fox

If Trump wins this next election he says he’ll be a dictator “for a day.” Even if it’s actually for a day, how is that okay? And his supporters applaud it. But then, they applaud anything he says or does, even if it doesn’t make sense such as water rendering magnets useless. This is one of the reasons most of the world looks at Trump supporters as a cult. His supporters often say they aren’t in a cult, yet they fit the definition.