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This update summarizes the key provisions of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act," "Sarbanes-Oxley," or the "Act"), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the "SEC") rules under the Act relevant to foreign private issuers (a term that covers most non-U.S. issuers, other than foreign governments). It is current through September 1, 2004.

Season’s greetings. In this issue, we provide some food for festive financial thought, as well as some planning ideas and good cheer to help you bring your financial resolutions to fruition. We wish you a prosperous New Year.

The EU Directive on Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation (the "<B>Directive</B>" or "<B>MAD</B>"), aims to harmonise market abuse rules across the EU. This article summarises the key provisions of the MAD as they will affect UK-listed companies and their advisers, including.

In this issue, we get a range of views from senior professionals working with or for Aim-listed companies on the state of the market and what to expect over the next 12 months.

The new EU Prospectus Directive (the Prospectus Directive) has been published December 31, 2003 in the Official Journal of the European Community with certain of its provisions taking effect as of this date. The Prospectus Directive is the first directive to be implemented under the EU Financial Services Action Plan and EU member states are expected to bring it into legal effect by July 1, 2005.

On 17 June the European Commission published its long-awaited legislative proposals1 for reviving the European securitisation market (the proposals). This is a significant and wide-ranging package of reforms, aimed at reducing undue obstacles to the growth of the EU securitisation market.

Included in this issue: SIPPs - What's All the Fuss About; IHT Treatment of Trusts; The Future for Retirement Annuity Contracts Under the Annual Allowance; Standard Life - Post-Demutualisation - Who'll Get the Profits; The Importance of Asset Allocation - and How to Get it Right; Discretionary Fund Management within a SIPP; The REIT Choice; How Safe is your Pension? HMRC's New Compliance 'Interventions'

On 1 November 2005 the Company Law Reform Bill was finally introduced to the House of Lords, seven years after the Company Law Review Steering Group started its review of the existing law.

This ‘Report on the Directors’ Remuneration Report Regulations 2002’ (‘Report’), describes research undertaken by Deloitte and Touche LLP (‘Deloitte’) on behalf of the Department of Trade & Industry (‘DTI’) and according to terms of reference agreed with the DTI

A technical summary of the AIFMD, otherwise known as "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Alternative Investment Fund Managers and amending Directives 2003/41/EC and 2009/65/EC

This update summarizes the key provisions of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act," "Sarbanes-Oxley," or the "Act"), and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the "SEC") rules under the Act relevant to foreign private issuers (a term that covers most non-U.S. issuers, other than foreign governments). It is current through September 1, 2004.