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Companies prepare employees for life after retirement Companies in Japan are looking at new investment schemes to ensure employees have enough money in their pension funds when they retire. By Hideki Thurgood Kano and Wakako Sekiyama

Overcoming the risks of choosing real estate for investment trusts Real estate investment trusts are being careful not to stunt the young but growing market by buying unsuitable and risky property to add to their portfolio, say Shunpei Tanaka, Kenji Utsumi and Mami Ikebukuro

Japanese issuers grapple with Sarbanes-Oxley Following the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, most Japanese reporting companies are taking affirmative steps to comply with the new US corporate governance requirements. By Masahisa Ikeda, Isamu Watson and Satoko Kato

The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the first steps on the road to a regulatory overhaul of US mutual funds.

President Putin has a track record of being friendly towards business. But with the country's leading businessman in jail, are foreign investors underestimating Russian risk? By Simon Crompton

During financial downturns, banks and financial institutions are usually faced with the problem of non-performing loans. One way to deal with them is to create asset management companies (AMCs). The two pieces of legislation in the Turkish legal system regulating AMCs are Law No 4743 on the Restructuring of Debts in the Financial Sector and Amending Certain Laws and the Regulation on the Establishment and Operation of Asset Management Companies. Law No 4743, which was enacted as a result of the two financial crises in November 2000 and February 2001, introduced the concept of AMCs to the Turkish legal system.

Foreigners are showing interest in buying non-tradeable shares in domestically listed companies, but political ambivalence and a vague legal and regulatory framework are holding things up. By Doug Markel

Financial services companies in Hong Kong can now use a new trade pact with China to gain a lead over rivals elsewhere. By Andreas Lauffs, Eugene Lim and David Lee

In the first of a series of articles examining differences between UK and US documentation, Tom Reid and William Underhill look at IPO underwriting agreements

Several developments in Ontario securities law, taken together, have the potential to substantially increase the exposure of directors and officers to personal liability. These are: