Global trends in the industry may be a precursor of what’s to come in Canada—and companies must be prepared to address them, both in the short and long term.

October 4-5, 2012, marks the 14th annual Banff Venture Forum (BVF), a two-day event held at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel in Banff, Alberta.

We expect M&A deal volume in the Canadian insurance sector to continue to strengthen into 2012.

Coincident with its new strategic priorities, the IASB has been doing some forward thinking about what its agenda priorities should be after it completes its existing projects (see "IFRS in the Pipeline").

Over the last decade, state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) have become increasingly important in the global oil and gas sectors.

With today’s unforgiving economy, the topic of risk management of major programs, as well as the maturity of general project management within an organization, is dominating discussion among senior management, executive leadership and boards.

A state of "Canadian M&A anaemia" was the accepted wisdom during the volatile second quarter, especially in the headline "mega deal" resource segment.

Although 2012 began strong, global economic uncertainty and a drop in commodity prices led to a marked slowdown in merger and acquisitions (M&A) in the mining industry in the first half of 2012.

In January 2012, PwC hosted two events in Toronto and Vancouver to discuss mining opportunities in Peru.

For Canadian rate regulated enterprises, the path to IFRS has been a rocky one, full of near death experiences.

Some months before the SEC released its report on IFRS that we discussed on the preceding page, the oversight bodies of the IASB, the IFRS Trustees and the Monitoring Board, unveiled a new strategic plan for the IASB – a new vision, if you will, establishing the IASB’s direction, operations, governance and funding for the next ten years.

Each year the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) release summaries of the results of their continuous disclosure reviews of reporting issuers.

On August 14, 2012, the Department of Finance released for consultation draft legislative proposals implementing measures included in the March 29, 2012 federal budget.

This Tax memo discusses two recent tax items of interest to those in the asset management industry.

The Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) released its decision in The Queen v. Sommerer on July 13, 2012, concluding that subsection 75(2) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) does not apply on a fair market sale of property to a trust by a person who is a capital beneficiary of the trust.

On August 22, 2012 the SEC adopted two new rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Act requiring:

On March 29, 2012, the Federal Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, presented the majority government’s budget, which included a number of tax initiatives that are particularly relevant to the insurance industry. These tax initiatives are reviewed in this Tax memo.

Brazil is a nation transformed.

Uncertainty continues into the new decade.

The 2012 IFRS illustrative consolidated annual financial statements are now available on PwC Inform.