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We are pleased to share that Jesse Collin, from BETTER FINANCE member organization Finnish Share Promotion Foundation, has been selected as a member of ESMA’s Consultative Working Group in the Risk Standing Committee – Investor Trends and Research Working Group. The working group will focus on consumers, ESG and innovation related topics. For a full

The Covid-crisis has become profitable for some in the financial sector. Among those who profit, are the Exchange Traded Funds (ETF), that seem to have stood up quite well in the face of the economic recession in recent months, and are now emerging stronger compared to traditional index funds. Charles Symons, Director of iShares in

A capital markets union, a banking union, strengthened financial supervision and making the European financial sector more sustainable… These are just a few of the ambitious proposals from the European Commission. Despite the opposition of Member States, many of those plans have been implemented over the last ten years. Although there is still a long

The EBA seeks to foster consumer protection in all EU Member States, by identifying and addressing consumer detriment in the financial services sector. By assessing the retail conduct of financial firms, the EBA also seeks to contribute to the stability, integrity and effectiveness of the financial system. One of the tasks of the EBA is

In february 2015, in a 18 page document called “The Union of Capital Markets: An Investor Perspective”, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink`s message was clear: the EU should assess the possibility of creating a cross-border personal pension fund. With a potential 240 million European citizens reached, the EU Commission, starting efforts for such a pan-european pension

BETTER FINANCE provided answers to a questionnaire in order to help EIOPA collect informal input for its Consumer Trends Report and inform EIOPA in the identification, prioritisation and development of targeted policy proposals; EIOPA seeks to identify possible consumer protection issues arising from identified trends.

Characterised by low interest rates for credit and low yields for debt instruments, the past year as well as 2016 were not very fruitful for institutional investors (especially insurers and credit institutions), reason for which professionals who offer financial products have been searching for financial assets with higher returns (see article here). A recent study

The report should be of particular interest to anyone who wishes to look beyond national borders to how policymakers in other EU countries are dealing with similar issues in the areas of life insurance, non-life products (property, accident and health insurance) and old-age provision. The reports looks at questions pertaining to premium income, consumer complaints

In february 2015, in a 18 page document called "The Union of Capital Markets: An Investor Perspective", Blackrock CEO Larry Fink`s message was clear: the EU should assess the possibility of creating a cross-border personal pension fund. With a potential 240 million European citizens reached, the EU Commission, starting efforts for such a pan-european pension

According to the figures of the 1st quarter of 2015 recently published by AksjeNorge (“EquityNorway”), a non-profit and independent organisation, the downward trend in the number of private individual shareholders in Norway is finally reversing. And it is interesting to note that figures comparing investment trends from 2010 until 2015 show that although the number of Norwegian women investing

“The European Union’s watchdog has ruled the European Commission failed to adequately consider conflicts of interest when it appointed BlackRock Investment Management, the world’s second largest investor in fossil fuels, to advise on environmental regulations for the banking sector.” […] “In the report published this week, O’Reilly concluded the Commission needed to better police conflict

BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investors in banks and fossil fuel companies, has been hired by the EU to work on potential new environmental rules for banks. Campaigners raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, given BlackRock’s widespread financial interests in sectors that could be directly impacted by new environmental rules. […] Katrin Ganswindt,

BlackRock Inc. will ditch investments with high sustainability-related risk as climate concerns drive a sweeping change in the way the world’s largest asset manager invests its $7 trillion in assets. […] Activists have been calling on BlackRock to do more around the climate crisis. […] Operating in more than 30 countries, and as one of

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