Standards, Ethics & Regulations (SER)

07 April 2020

Eurozone Recovery Falters — What’s Next?

By Yvo Timmermans, CFA and Paul van den Noord

Powerful new instruments have to be created to revive a flagging eurozone economy.

31 March 2020

Accounting Matters: Standard Setters Weigh Goodwill Changes

By Kevin Prall, CFA

The complexities of accounting for intangible assets and goodwill are not conducive to a quick fix.

27 March 2020

Countering Coronavirus through Inclusive Culture

By Sarah Maynard, ASIP and Rebecca Fender, CFA

How have diversity and inclusion efforts at investment organizations held up amid the COVID-19 crisis?

24 March 2020

On Paper Clips and Shareholder Value

By Joachim Klement, CFA

Imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) built to produce as many paper clips as possible.

20 March 2020

Book Review: How Money Became Dangerous

By Matt Lyons, CFA

How Money Became Dangerous is an insightful account of a key period in the development of finance.

10 March 2020

Singapore REIT Fee Structures: Are Investor and Manager Interests Aligned?

By Chong Li Min, CFA and Chan Fook Leong, CFA

How can we gauge whether the interests of REIT unitholders and their managers are really in sync?

23 January 2020

Still Learning to Fish: Three Years On

By Michael S. Falk, CFA

I held my first book in my hands in the spring of 2016. However improbable it was for me to write one, there it was.

15 January 2020

East African Capital Markets: Three Lessons

By Markus Schuller

A speaker's tour in East Africa gave Markus Schuller a compelling window into how four rising economies are working to find a place for their nascent finance sectors in global capital markets.

14 January 2020

Responsible Innovation: How Can European Asset Managers Lead?

By Alejandro Hiniesto, CFA, Fabrizio Palmucci, CFA and Rhodri Preece, CFA

How can firms and practitioners adapt to the challenges confronting the investment industry? Responsible innovation may hold part of the answer.

07 January 2020

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): The Insiders’ Take

By Bill Hortz

Leaders in socially responsible investing (SRI) shared their in-the-trenches perspective on this evolving space.

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Bailey: BoE won't risk inflation to beat coronavirus

The Bank of England will not resort to printing money to lessen the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Andrew Bailey says. "Using monetary financing would damage credibility on controlling inflation by eroding operational independence," Bailey says. Reuters (05 Apr.)

SEC's Lee calls for rule changes to be postponed

Securities and Exchange Commission member Allison Herren Lee wants the agency to pause pending rule changes but not rush into regulatory relief without analysis amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Relevant considerations in that analysis include whether an action is directly responsive to COVID-19 and whether an action represents an appropriate use of agency resources at a time when we are routinely called upon to take emergency actions," she says. Reuters (04 Apr.)

FDA's Hahn: China not causing US drug shortage

If the US has any shortage of drugs, it is because of high demand and not because China or any other country is preventing the supply of ingredients, says Stephen Hahn, head of the US Food and Drug Administration. "We don't have any evidence that there is a drug in short supply because of anyone blocking the active pharmaceutical ingredients in the drugs," he says. BNN Bloomberg (Canada) (05 Apr.)

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