By Ted Howard
Much as global markets want to forget about Europe, it will continue to drive markets in 2012. Add to this continued regulation pressures and more searching for returns.
Like most years of the financial crisis, the new year continues to be challenged by issues of the preceding one. In fact the 2011 to 2012 transition is, sadly, almost exactly like that of the 2010 to 2011 transition: sovereign debt worries, regulations and the US economy.