EDHEC's Career Service organises a variety of events, conferences and meetings to help students enter professional life but the highlight of the year is undoubtedly the EDHEC Job Forum that takes place annually in Paris at the start of each new year. This event fits in nicely with the students' job-search calendar, when companies start thinking seriously about hiring competent students for their trainee programmes, internships and full time positions. Read next page

The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and the IEIF (an independent French real estate research institute), with the support of Finance Innovation, the global competitiveness institution, have announced the launch of the EDHEC IEIF Commercial Property Index (France). Read next page

A “call for reaction” was sent by EDHEC to international institutional investors and asset managers to compare investor views of amendments to the IAS39 and IFRS 7 standards not just with the conclusions of an initial EDHEC study, but also with the ambitions of these reforms prepared and adopted in great haste. Read next page

EDHEC Business School is currently in 9th place of the Financial Times Rankings of European Masters Programmes. French business schools have a reputation of excellence in standards of education throughout Europe and the proof of this can be seen in the latest rankings by the Financial Times, clearly dominated by French Business Schools. This ranking is a measure of quality for all candidates searching for a Masters programme in Europe. Read next page