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Eurozone inflation mushroomed from 3.4% to 10% in one year, further deepening Europe’s cost-of-living crisis, yet the best the European Central Bank (ECB) could muster is a late and timid hike of interest rate from 0 to 0.75%. Financial repression policies in place since the crises of 2008 and 2009 are being tightened further in

In a late bid to address soaring inflation in the Euro area, the European Central Bank (ECB) increased interest rates for the first time in 11 years in July 2022, raising its main rate to 0 percent after eight years of negative rates, and reaching 0,75% today. Notwithstanding, Eurozone inflation hit a new record high

On 14 April F2iC – one of BETTER FINANCE’s French member organisations – issued a press release arguing that the vote of shareholders, as the true owners of a company, should be binding without a company being able to use dilatory maneuvers to circumvent it. The press release follows the rejection by Stellantis’ shareholders of

This new statement follows on an earlier case where VZMD, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association, opposed pressure on its ‘Share SUPPORT’ programme by a brokerage industry  player, harming the minority, individual shareholders it aims to represent. Today, VZMD pointed to further shortcomings and misleading claims made by the ATVP (The Slovenian Securities Market Agency) against its

BETTER FINANCE Member VZMD makes Objections Public in OPEN LETTER to the CEO of the Slovenian Securities Market Agency (ATVP), the national competent Authority In a press release at the end of 2021, VZMD – the Pan-Slovenian Shareholder Association and BETTER FINANCE Member – drew attention to the mass dissemination of letters and “innovative” offers

In June 2021, the German Association of Insured (BdV), together with the analyst Carsten Zielke and the European consumer organisation BETTER FINANCE, presented the results of their analysis of the current SFCR (Solvency and Financial Condition Report) of selected European life-insurers. Following up on this, BETTER FINANCE and BdV discussed their methodological approach, the interpretation

AEMEC, one of the Spanish member organisations of BETTER FINANCE, expresses concerns about the negative impact on individual shareholders of Spanish electricity companies of new tax measures targetting those companies currently being considered by the Spanish authorities. Please read the full press release in Spanish here. The English version can be found here.

Business and individual investors organisations issue statement on the European Commission’s upcoming initiative on sustainable corporate governance. BETTER FINANCE joined ecoDa, European Family Businesses, EuropeanIssuers, Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), Invest Europe and SMEUnited in issuing this Joint Letter to the European Commission to convey our shared concerns regarding the upcoming proposal on sustainable

With the entire world in the grip of an unprecedented pandemic, governments around the world struggle to bring the devastating Coronavirus under control, save lives and alleviate overburdened health systems. Unfortunately, the necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures implemented to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world.

DATE Publication and Article Title (with links) 26/01/2018 FT – Slippage causes confusion in Mifid II fund rules row 05/02/2018 Les Echos – La réforme de l’épargne-retraite divise les professionnels 08/02/2018 La Libre – PRIIPs  Un règlement qui trompe linvestisseur 14/02/2018 Law360 – Blocwide Pensions Don’t Prevent Dangers, Groups Warn 04/03/2018 Financial News – Asset

BETTER FINANCE welcomes and supports EIOPA’s ongoing work on a supervisory toolkit to assess the value for money offered by unit linked and hybrid insurance products. Since its creation, BETTER FINANCE has been fighting for regulatory and supervisory action to improve the returns of long-term and pension saving products. As BETTER FINANCE research shows, high

Brussels, 11 September 2020 – On 10 October 2014, BETTER FINANCE wrote to ESMA[1] to ask for an investigation into the issue of falsely “active” funds, a practice also known as “closet indexing”. Today, it praises ESMA for its considerable efforts towards addressing the issue. Indeed, on 9 September, ESMA published a Working Paper on

This document provides you with key information about this pan-European Personal pension Product (PEPP). It is not a 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 help you compare it with other PEPPs. This is not a

On Thursday 3 April, the European Parliament voted to cap interbank fees for all card payments. European lawmakers backed a plan that would see bank charges for processing payments via credit cards capped at 0.3 percent of the transaction value (and at a maximum of € 0.7 or 0.2% for debit cards) for all national and transnational transactions. According to the European Commission,

On March 7, the European Commission announced its plans to hand over the responsibility for executive pay to shareholders, addressing the staggering ratio of worker-executive pay at big banks, often exceeding a ratio of 100 to 1. The announcement comes as the Royal Bank of Scotland will pay out £576 in bonuses although it reported massive losses, as well as the Lloyds Banking Group, which

On February 26, the European Parliament called for full disclosure of fees and costs of insurance products by voting the amendments to a draft update of EU rules on the information and advice offered by the insurance sector. MEPs agreed on the amendments to the insurance mediation directive to strengthen the rights of consumers when

BETTER FINANCE is delighted to have been shortlisted for this year’s European Public Affairs Awards for the category “NGO of the Year”!   In 2013, BETTER FINANCE successfully influenced policy through targeted advocacy, raised awareness among stakeholders and increased user-side visibility and presence. The voting will open on Monday 20 January. Please support our cause

The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, followed in Europe by the sovereign debt crisis, mainly consisted in the adoption of new, more stringent economic and market discipline instruments for the Eurozone Member States.  On top of that, crisis-response mechanisms have been put in place, such as the EDIS, the Single Resolution Fund,

New York City’s retirement funds for over 700,000 city employees represent the fourth largest pension system in the United States, totaling nearly $160 billion in assets… and they are being wiped out by the exorbitant fees charged by the Wall Street money managers. An analysis of New York City’s pension funds revealed zero return on

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, was quoted in the Financial Times following his contribution to EFAMA’s report “Building Blocks for Industry Driven Investor Education Initiatives”. Presenting the investors’ perspective on "The fall of financial literacy", Prache suggested that plans to improve financial literacy should include resinstating basic financial mathematics in European curriculums, as