A PEPP to provide pension adequacy through decent long-term returns and protect the purchasing power of the life savings of EU citizens
With a global pension’s gap forecasted to mushroom to $400 trillion by 2050 and income replacement rates decreasing, EU citizens have to – and will have to – increasingly rely on personal pension products to complement the...[more]
MIS-SELLING ON THE EP’S AGENDA - ECON STUDIES
Inspired to some extent from BETTER FINANCE’s 2017 Briefing Paper on mis-selling of financial products as well as its study into the issue of Closet Indexing at the beginning of the year, the European Parliament's ECON committee...[more]
WILLINGNESS OF EU MEMBER STATES CRUCIAL FOR ENDING DOUBLE TAXATION OF INVESTMENT INCOME WITHIN EU
At the beginning of February 2018, in support of the Capital Markets Union initiative, the European Commission released a Code of Conduct on Withholding Tax (WHT) aimed at reducing barriers hampering cross-border investments for...[more]
NEW PRIIPS KID RULES VIOLATE MIFID II PROVISIONS AT THE DETRIMENT OF INVESTORS
The turn of the year saw the PRIIPs and MiFID II Regulations come into effect, with the aim of strengthening investor protection and improving the functioning of financial markets by making them more efficient, resilient and...[more]
ESAS REFORM: CONCERNS FOR THE PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT OF CONDUCT OF FINANCIAL BUSINESS RULES
On 20 September 2017 the European Commission (EC) announced its proposal to improve the supervision of European financial services as well as its revision of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). The prospect of such a key...[more]
SHAREHOLDERS RIGHTS DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTING ACTS: LAST CHANCE TO ENSURE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUAL SHAREHOLDERS ARE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT
Following years of drafting the revision of the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) by the European Commission (EC), the EU presidency and the EU Parliament (EP) finally agreed on the final version of the new SRD on 9 December...[more]
COMPLIANCE WITH EU INVESTOR PROTECTION RULES SHOULD CONSTITUTE A KEY REQUISITE FOR GRANTING SUSTAINABLE FINANCE LABELS
Whereas the report of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance constitutes a step in the right direction to promote a cleaner and fairer economy, it essentially fails to adequately address...[more]
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