The Hedge Fund Best Practice Standards

Adoption of Hedge Fund Best Practice Standards Drives Investment. KPMG survey finds investor community strongly in favour of industry standards proposed by the Hedge Fund Working Group. When making investment allocations, eight out of ten pension funds said they would favour a hedge fund manager who had complied with the Hedge Fund best practice standards (“the Standards”), found KPMG’s survey into investor perspectives of the Standards recently outlined by the Hedge Fund Working Group (HFWG).

Frontiers in Finance - Retail Banking in Focus, March 2008

Our March edition of Frontiers in Finance discusses the credit crunch, fraudulent dealings, liquidity crises, capital management, the future of payments, and innovation in the retail banking sector. We also include an insider perspective given by Terri Dial, Group Executive Director at Lloyds, on the differences in the UK and US retail banking sector.

Frontiers in Tax - June 2008

Welcome to the second edition of Frontiers in Tax.
Thank you for all those of you who provided comments and
feedback on our first edition.

Frontiers in Finance – July 2008

Several months have passed since the last frontiers in finance, when I wrote about the credit crisis, bank liquidity drying up and the prospect of global recession. Have things got better or worse since then? There is no simple answer.

Insights into growth, performance and governance

Its role is simple: it offers insight into issues on everyCFO’s agenda. The nameAgenda: insights into growth,performance and governance highlights three of the concerns that are at the heart of KPMG’s advisory services.,
and assess how tax can influence the impact these have on financial
institutions. We also want to keep you abreast of international
developments in taxation which are being driven by the OECD and
tax authorities around the world, and the affect that regulating these
changes has on taxation.on taxation.

IFRS Briefing Sheet – Issue 96

This IFRS Briefing Sheet summarises the status of the current projects of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB or Board). It reflects significant discussions of the IASB up to and including those that took place at its June 2008 meeting.