Issues related to compliance as well as industry competition are the top concerns of financial service executives, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Of the 350 executives attending the firm’s 2006 Financial Services Finance Executives Forum, 30% pointed to the cost, burden and risk associated with regulatory compliance as their key concern, followed by industry competition (29%), competition for talent (14%) and managing reputational risk (12%). In other results, the survey found that 58% of those polled see that distinctions between banks, insurers and asset managers will mean less in the future, nearly a third predicted more cross-border collaborations and 85% felt hedge funds should be regulated.