John Parkhouse, Leader of the Investment Management and Real Estate Practice at PwC Luxembourg, presents in this podcast the results of this years' Fund Manager MiFID Survey. The objective of the survey was to reveal the level of readiness of the investment funds industry with regard to the recent implementation of MiFID among European fund managers.

In this podcast, John Parkhouse, Investment Management and Real Estate Practice Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg, presents the results and analysis of the Alternative Investment Survey 2007.

In this second edition of our podcast series, Mark Evans, Fund Distribution Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers Luxembourg, presents some of the key trends impacting the distribution of cross-border funds now and over the next few years.

Gene Donnelly, Global Advisory and Tax Leader, explores why 70 percent of all deals fail and what companies can do to capture the value of the deal.

Rob Ward, Global Assurance Leader, discusses the global implications of broader IFRS adoption. Realising the promise of convergence is vital for the future of the global capital markets. The move towards a unified set of high quality standards will create an unprecedented opportunity to achieve transparency and simplification of the corporate reporting model.