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Volume 1 - Number 12 | September 23, 2004

TOP STORY: Florida Hurricanes Spare CMBS Investors But Risk Increases By Bennett Voyles While CMBS investors with major assets in Florida generally emerged free and clear from the state’s three devastating hurricanes over the past several weeks, their luck might not stick in future years as the region faces increasing storm risk.

INSIDER: Standish Mellon Asset Management's David DeBiase and Paul Escobar By Erika Morphy Two weeks ago, when the US Financial Accounting Standards Board suspended part of its controversial guidance as to how institutional investors should mark down the value of a bond holding affected by interest rate rises, the financial community breathed a sign of relief—and disbelief as well. FASB rarely executes such about-faces, especially after it has issued a guidance, in this case EITF03-1. Here's what two insiders have to say about the reversal.