Join this free webinar presented by Professor Ed Altman, NYU Stern Max L. Heine Professor of Finance and professor in the NYU Stern MS in Risk Management Program. Dr. Altman will explain his new "Bottom-Up" approach to assessing default risk of sovereigns and also present his outlook for corporate high-yield default and recovery rates for 2012.

The PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers' Association) Netherlands chapter meeting held at AIF on January 24 was a great success, with not a seat to spare on the night.

The topic of this popular meeting was: Dutch Mortgages - Risk in the Mortgage Markets and the Consequences for Funding of Banks. Guest speakers were Tonko Gast - CEO Dynamic Credit Partners Europe, and Werner Groenendijk - Head Asset Based Funding of ABN AMRO.

Expansion, with its subpar returns, may make the kingdom bigger, but its citizen investors will be poorer as it traps capital in a hostile environment. The author of this article, Joseph Rizzi, is a lecturer in the AIF Acquisition Finance program.

AIF is now in association with UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education for the Macroeconomics and Global Financial Markets program, taking place this November 28 - 30. The program is being taught by Professor Andrew K. Rose, B.T. Rocca Jr. Professor of International Business in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.