Research Zeitgeist: Top Posts and Hot Topics
Housing and subprime-related issues remained popular with Research Recap visitors in the latest week. The newest twist on the topic was Aging Boomers to Put More Pressure on Housing Market, a provocative paper predicting that the bulge of retiring boomers in coming years will result in a surplus of sellers in most of the US.
The thirst for knowledge of complex financial issues is evident in the continuing popularity of Research Recap primers on Credit Default Swaps, Structured Investment Vehicles and Subprime Mortgages.
As efforts to increase regulation and oversight of these complex instruments gather steam, a note of caution was sounded in Fair Value Accounting Could Reduce Market Confidence. Recognizing that improvements need to be made, the UK’s Financial Services Authority suggests that if the pendulum of valuing complex instruments swings from too generous to too conservative, market confidence could be undermined. In essence the FSA seems concerned about changes being made with politics or public relations in mind, and not based on sound accounting principles. This is sure to be a hot topic for some time on both sides of the Atlantic.
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