This document provides you with key information about this Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). It is not marketing material. The information is required by law to help you understand the nature, risks, costs, potential gains and losses of this personal pension product and to help you compare it with other PEPPs
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
At BETTER FINANCE, we closely monitor various Member States’ legal frameworks regarding the rights of individual investors and minority shareholders. We firmly believe that among the most important rights of minority shareholders one has to include the right to organise collectively and the right to seek professional assistance. Such rights are often exercised through the
BETTER FINANCE’s response to the questionnaire on the development of EU Ecolabel criteria for financial products.
Proxy advisers have been mired in controversy due to perceived conflicts of interest and doubts about the adequacy of their resources. They are predicted to remain at the centre of attention, particularly after the launch of the “name-and-shame” register in the United Kingdom, providing details of those companies that failed to attain 80 per cent
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this opportunity to comment on the proposal amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 supplementing MiFID II as regards organizational requirements and operating conditions for investment firms and defined terms for the purpose of that directive. Investment firms shall act in accordance with the best interest of their clients. As such, when providing investment
Earlier this year BETTER FINANCE called on policy makers to put an end to financial abuses by ensuring better public enforcement of conduct of business rules and introducing an EU-wide framework for Collective Redress in order to facilitate effective private enforcement. Now the European Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Affairs is calling for an EU-wide
BETTER FINANCE supports the idea of moving trading from OTC markets to regulated trading venues, and of the differentiation between bilateral and multilateral trading activities in order to protect the price formation process on transparent regulated venues and be able to have a real level playing field.
This paper tries to assess the regulatory and, more importantly, the supervisory (public enforcement) developments regarding the actual protection of savers, individual investors and mortgage borrowers since the 2008 financial crisis, in particular regarding the mis-selling of savings, investment and mortgage products.
On November 18, US federal authorities announced that the largest category of victims in the vast Ponzi scheme run by Bernard L. Madoff –those who lost cash trough accounts with various middleman funds – can benefit from a $ 2.35 billion fund to compensate for their losses. The Madoff Victim Fund, overseen by Special Master
EuroFinUse is very pleased that MEP Pervenche Beres’ amendments on PRIPs match our demands in relation to the inclusion of shares and bonds and other bank savings products, life insurance products as well as the disclosure of inducements paid by the provider to the seller. Press Release
Under the EU’s Packaged Retail Investment Product (PRIPs) directive, investors would have to be issued a key information document (KID) that would, amongst other things shed light on a product’s past performances. This naturally, has the pension industry up in arms. The exclusion of occupational pension schemes from the PRIPs scope would ”avoid any negative
EuroFinUse shows its concerns on the long awaited Regulation on Key Information Documents for investment products that will unfortunately, and contrary to the original aim, only address the harmonization and improvement of pre-contractual product information, and not sales practices. KID Regulation must apply to all “substitutable” investment products at the retail point of sale and
CFA Institute, EuroFinuse,FECIF, EFAMA, and AILO,welcome the focus of the European Commission on investor protection through the publication this week of three pieces of legislation: the Packaged Retail Investment Products (PRIPs) regulation, the revised Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD) and the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferrable Securities V (UCITS)Directive. These are essential in addressing crucial
We strongly support the new “horizontal” approach of the EC, which is the right way to look at the distribution of retail investment products, as most of them are “substitute” to each other, and most of them are or can be sold by the same intermediaries. We nevertheless regret that the retail investor’s perspective is
PRIIP Key Information Document – A regulation to enable investors to compare financial products and make informed decisions
The Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament (ECON) voted yesterday on the Regulation for a Key Information Document for investment products (formerly known as “PRIPs”). EuroFinUse praises the European Parliament for voting for more consistency in summary information for investors, but is quite concerned that a majority of the critical long term and
Dear Members, Yesterday afternoon we learned that our efforts of the last few months paid off. On Wednesday 20 November, the European Parliament voted on a proposal for a Key Information Document (KID) aimed at addressing a chronic lack of transparency in terms of charges, performance, and risks for customers and end-users of financial products.
On October 22, the Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament (ECON) voted on the Regulation for a Key Information Document for investment products (formerly known as “PRIPs”). These new amendments proposed by MEP Sharon Bowles include the introduction of a complexity label for products deemed complex by the manufacturer as well as a
In the next two years, European investment funds will be subjected to two regulatory changes. If MIFIDII is expected to have a limited impact, according to experts, PRIPS raises more concerns. MiFID II is supposed to enter into force in 2017; however, since the financial sector is not ready, it will take more time. The
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this unique initiative from EIOPA as an example of best practice in terms of supervision and investor protection, not only at the EU level but on the global regulatory scene, especially given the architecture of the distribution market for retail investment products. EU savers have been slowly diverted from direct investments towards
BETTER FINANCE believes that the main challenges and opportunities for next 10 years will be: Reorienting the equity and bond funding towards sustainable investments. The identification of sustainable investments must be based on facts and science, not on emotions and ideologies, and on the probability to have a positive impact on the environment, society and
Below please find the European Commission Reply to the Open Letter by BETTER FINANCE and its members against any postponement of the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive II.
Traditionally, in most EU Member States, people count on the state-based pension. Only in big companies occupational pension schemes are accepted more broadly if not compulsory. In many Members States, personal pension products are little used because of complexity, high fees, not transparent contract clauses and recently the low interest rate phase, which reduces the
BETTER FINANCE REPLY TO THE CONSULTATION PAPER ON THE PROPOSAL FOR GUIDELINES UNDER THE INSURANCE DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIVE ON INSURANCE-BASED INVESTMENT PRODUCTS THAT INCORPORATE A STRUCTURE WHICH MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR THE CUSTOMER TO UNDERSTAND THE RISKS INVOLVED
BETTER FINANCE provides its response to the joint consultation launched by ESMA and EBA.
BETTER FINANCE took part in the consultation on the Potential Harmonization of Recovery and and Resolution Frameworks for Insurers launched by EIOPA ( European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority). With this consultation, EIOPA will develop its view on harmonising recovery and resolution frameworks for insurers and might publish an Opinion addressed to the EU institutions.
BETTER FINANCE provides its response to ESMA’s Consultation on the draft guidelines on MiFID governance requirements.
BETTER FINANCE keenly supports the European Commission’s proposal to launch a Pan-European Personal Pension product (PEPP) as a key component of the Capital Markets Union (CMIU) initiative. The extreme fragmentation of the numerous EU markets in Personal Pension Products (PPP) hampers the development of badly needed economies of scale. BETTER FINANCE strongly doubts that any
BETTER FINANCE keenly supports the European Commission’s proposal to launch a Pan-European Personal Pension product (PEPP) as a key component of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative. The extreme fragmentation of the numerous EU markets in Personal Pension Products (PPP) hampers the development of badly needed economies of scale. BETTER FINANCE strongly doubts that any
Good principles of corporate governance and their proper implementation in all listed companies are of vital importance for their long-term survival, growth and stability, for ensuring the long term interests of shareholders is not overlooked, and furthermore for the stability and sustainable development of the economy and the financial system. Please read here our response
There has been considerable progress on both supervisory convergence and the single rulebook since the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) were created in 2011. Nevertheless, both require continued and appropriately targeted efforts to make further progress. To this end, the Commission’s capital markets union (CMU) action plan published on 24 September 2020, requires the European
Already back in 2014 BETTER FINANCE denounced the practice of closet indexing. It launched a campaign against those funds that claim to be “actively” managed but that are in fact merely following market indices, although they charge much higher fees than low cost index-tracking funds such as ETFs. The distribution of such funds as “active”
Collective Redress Directive – a directive for initiating court actions against companies who infringe consumers rights
It is with sadness that BETTER FINANCE learned that Soner Bahcuvan recently passed away. He was a great friend of our organisation and, apart from his close involvement with the European Federation of Investors, instrumental in involving Boryad – the Turkish Exchange Traders Association – with Euroshareholders and then with BETTER FINANCE. All members of
Last week, the European Commission published seven Notices to stakeholders concerning the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of banking and finance, to prepare for, and soften, the upcoming shock on March 30th, 2019. Among them, professionals in the asset management sector have been warned that after the Article 50
On November 14th, Advocate General Bobek responded negatively (in the case of Schrems v. Facebook[1]) to the referring court’s question on whether Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 44/2001 should be interpreted as allowing a consumer to also introduce the claims of other consumers (collective redress). The AG added in no uncertain terms that it is not
This is a rather literal translation of the title of the latest book from Jacques de Larosière, unfortunately only available in French for now. Does Jacques de Larosière really need an introduction… former Director General of the International Monetary Fund, of the French Central Bank, of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and also
In its survey on Pension fund fees, LCP concluded that pensions funds are paying asset managers up to 70% more than 6 years ago: “The total asset management fee for a £50m active global equity mandate funded in January 2011, has, on average, risen 70% in the 6 years since our 2011 fee survey, from
On Wednesday 29 March at 12:30 pm, Sir Tim Barrow will present THE letter to the European Council informing the EU that the UK decided to “withdraw from the Union” (article 50 (1) TEU). Rumour has it though that the European Council is ready to react within 48 hours following the reception of the letter.