The Ordinary General Meeting of the ÖVFA took place on September 23, 2020 in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and approved to renew the chairmanship term for of Mag. Friedrich Mostböck for a new term. The elected board is as follows:

The AAFBR elected in the 2020 General meeting a new Board for mandate 2020-2022, represented by:

9 November 2020

EFRAG has issued a summary report of the joint webinar on the IASB's DP: Business Combinations: Disclosures, Goodwill and Impairment, held on 9 November with the Norwegian standard setter NASB, the Norwegian analyst’s organisation NFF and the IASB. Norwegian and European stakeholders expressed their views on the IASB proposals including the potential implementation and application concerns.

The purpose of the joint webinar organised by EFRAG, the NASB and the NFF, in cooperation with the IASB, was to gather the views from Norwegian constituents on the IASB proposals regarding business combinations: disclosures, goodwill and impairment.

The digital business news site The Corner has published an article discussing ESG investing in Spain following the virtual meeting organised by our Spanish member IEAF-FEF. Sustainability experts explained the challenges of the ever changing legal and operational framework surrounding sustainability at an international level. Many of the participants to the discussion are also contributors to the EFFAS CESGA® Programme. Some key factors to emerge from the discussion were the need for clear and useful standardised information from companies on ESG and how to integrate ESG factors into valuation and financial models for responsible investment. Read the full article here.