Jesús López Zaballos, , has been re-elected President of the European Federation of Financial Analysts, EFFAS (European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies), representing the IEAF. This re-election, which extends the presidency of the Spanish representative for three more years, has been formalized in the general assembly of this organization, held in Madrid, and has been unanimously approved by a proposal of the board of directors.

In this third consecutive term of the Spanish representative, chosen for the first time in 2012, EFFAS's priority challenges will be to analyze the changes in the role of analysts and investment managers in the face of the challenge of new technologies; Work for the establishment of a mandatory professional certification for analysts and portfolio managers within the framework of the European MiFID II regulation;

To all the members of national societies and all the CIIA charter holders:

lt is with great sadness and sense of loss to inform you of the passing of Dr. Jean-Claude Dufournet. He was scheduled to attend the ACIIA Council Meeting and Annual General Meeting in Frankfurt on June 29. We still cannot believe that he will not be there. As the obituary by the Swiss Society said, Jean-Claude was "committed to the last."

As all of you know, Jean-Claude co-founded the Association of Certified lnternational lnvestment Analysts (ACIIA) in 2001, and for the past sixteen years he had played a critical role in the development of the CIIA designation. On behalf of all the member national societies and the CIIA charter holders all over the world both in the past and the present, we would like to express our deepest appreciation for his dedication to the CIIA and ACIIA. He had been working relentlessly to improve the CIIA designation and ACIIA operations. lt is not an exaggeration at all to say that we could have never come this far without him.

On Tuesday, 23^rd May 2017 has been presented in Lisbon the Working Paper developed for EFFAS by the Nova School of Business and Economics under the direction of the Mr. Marques, APAF representative in the EFFAS EMC. Attached you will find the program and the full version of the Paper ´Non-Bank Financing of European Non-Financial Firms´, you are welcome to circulate it to your members and also publish it in your website.

Under the forceful support of Association of Certified International Investment Analysts (ACIIA) and Securities Association of China(SAC), led and organized by the family of CIIA in China, the 1st CIIA Annual Convention in China and the Forum of the Financial Development and Trend took place grandly on April 15, 2017 in Jianguo Hotel in Shanghai, to celebrate the 11th anniversary for CIIA’s being introduced into China.

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The 1st CIIA Annual Convention in China  Speeches of Distinguished Guests