Eurozone Forecast: outlook for financial services
Our Winter 2011/12 edition predicts that despite political progress in the form of unlimited three-year loans being offered by the ECB, the near-term outlook has worsened and the forecast is now for the Eurozone to suffer negative growth in Q4 2011 and fall back into recession in Q1 2012.
UCITS IV and asset servicing
With full implementation of UCITS IV only a year away, how are asset managers and asset services feeling about the directive? What will the impact be of a single European market for investment funds? Our survey aims to explore leading asset servicing firms’ views on this new directive.
FASB provides preliminary views on insurance accounting
Our September Insurance Accounting Alert looks at The Financial Accounting Standards Board Discussion Paper - Preliminary Views on Insurance Contracts (DP). The DP summarizes key aspects of the IASB exposure draft and compares that proposal to alternative preliminary views of the FASB.