BETTER FINANCE members UK Shareholders’ Association and ShareSoc (UK Individual Shareholders Society) published a letter expressing disappointment in the news that the UK government is abandoning some of its reforms to accounting standards: It is difficult to overstate the disappointment of investors, and other users of corporate information, at the news that the UK government
On 19 October 2023, BETTER FINANCE together with BEUC, Finance Watch and WWF, published a public letter addressed to Ms. Yon-Courtin and to the European Parliament’s shadow rapporteurs, expressing disappointment in the Omnibus and PRIIPs draft report in the Retail Investment Strategy file. ➡ BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on the Retail Investment Strategy ➡ BETTER
BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, has published a position paper on the European Commission’s Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) proposals. The organisation fully supports the EC’s RIS objectives: consistent rules, enhanced retail investor protection, unbiased advice, competitive financial markets, and transparent and comparable product information. The RIS constitutes a once-in-a-lifetime
Panel 1 | Capital market development in CEE - potential and constraints BETTER FINANCE Materials CMU Assessment Report 2019-2022 Partner Materials Panel 2 | Empowering individual investors: improving outcomes and ensuring best execution BETTER FINANCE Materials Transparency and Best Execution for Retail Traders and Investors - Policy Position Retail Investment Strategy shows potential, but fails
Following investigations by the DOJ and the FCA into a possible cartel of EU banks, the European Commission (EC) launched a probe into the possible rigging of the supranational, sub-sovereign and agency (SSA) debt market. The allegations suggest that the prices for bonds issued by European agencies such as the EBRD, and certain national and
As consumers, we have all been ripped off at some point in our lives by a dishonest company or service provider. We have all been a victim of a scam, small or large, and lost money due to the mis-selling of, or misinformation about, one product or another. Most of the time the amount of
An article from the FT on the ongoing opposition to the PRIIPs KID rules reiterates the industry’s growing concerns that the disclosure requirements on costs and charges for investment products generate the opposite result of that aimed by the Regulation. Alongside voices on the professional side, Guillaume Prache – Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE –
Support a BETTER FINANCE for all!➤ Donate via the Fondation de France ℹ️ Residents from France are eligible for tax deduction receipts. ◆ Make a donation online ➡︎ donate here [Fondation de France ‘TGE’ webpage] ➥ click the 'Belgium/Belgique' drop-down menu, find 'TGE - Better Finance' from the list, and choose your gift amount (one-off
BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo-advice with this seventh annual edition (2022), mapping a sample of platforms that provide online Robo-advisory investing services, by analysing their (automated) advice process in terms of transparency, costs, portfolio composition, suitability and sustainability options and preferences for the client. This edition’s analysis focuses on Robo-advisors’ ability to
The Retail Investment Strategy will be key in establishing a Capital Markets Union “that works for people”. The successful combined completion of the Retail Investor Strategy and the CMU Action Plan could generate a quantum leap in investor protection, empowerment and engagement, to their benefit and to the benefit of the CMU, sustainable investing and
AirbusWirecardVolkswagenAirbus BETTER FINANCE, The European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins forces with Stichting Investor Loss Compensation (SILC), assisting Airbus shareholders to recover losses resulting from Airbus’ involvement in bribery practices and other wrongful conducts. Largest ever penalty on global bribery practices | On 31 January 2020, Airbus – the global supplier of aircraft, and
How to make sure you can fully participate and enhance your experience as a sustainable retail investor in the market? ASK Take a closer look at the product information sheet to determine how “green” the investment product really is and whether it corresponds to your own ideas of a sustainable investment. It is always advisable
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Definitions are constantly evolving around the key concepts of sustainability but jurisdictions, regulators, and international organisations around the globe agree on the common elements of each of the below.
Lately, many shareholders in public limited companies have turned to the PanSlovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD) and stated that they have received various letters and very strange offers from IGOR ŠTEMBERGER, the CEO and owner of ILIRIKA bornz-posredniška družba, d.d. (a brokerage company). In certain cases, the offered prices for shares were extremely low. In others, they offered shareholders shares of the company ILIRIKA MOJA
A month before the International investor conference and the meeting of the European Federation of Investors and the Financial Services Users (BETTER FINANCE) and the World Federation of Investors (WFI) in Slovenia, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) published an interview with the VZMD President, mag. Kristjan Verbič. In it, mag. Verbič touches on the main topics of
Investors have pulled an average of £3.5bn a month from active funds since Mifid II rules highlighted the extra cost of active management to fee-pressured advisers. […] The Mifid rules introduced at the beginning of 2018 made it mandatory for advisers to break down costs for their clients periodically in the interest of greater transparency
Collective Redress Directive – a directive for initiating court actions against companies who infringe consumers rights
By Jean Medernach – The main role of EFRAG, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group, is to advise the European Commission on whether new IFRS should be endorsed in Europe. The criteria for endorsement of new or revised IFRS are: Technical: do they meet the criteria of understandability, relevance, reliability and comparability of the financial
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The European Central Bank and the central banks of the Eurozone launched a common European platform for the settlement of securities transactions called Target2-Securities (T2S). Due to integration of central securities depositories into a common European platform, the Central Securities Clearing Corporation (KDD) in Slovenia is terminating all accounts that do not have a designated
The team at BETTER FINANCE is deeply saddened by the news of the sudden departure of Leif Vindevågvice-president of the European Federation of Financial Services Users. We all wish to convey to convey our most sincere condolences to Leif’s family, friends and colleagues at Aktiespararna, our Swedish member organisation. Leif was a strong supporter of
A little more than a week ago, BETTER FINANCE announced the results of its replication of the ESMA investigation into Closet Indexing. Following up on this announcement, today BETTER FINANCE launches www.checkyourfund.eu, allowing stakeholders and individual investors to go through the results of the research and, in some cases, find out whether their investments are