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Today, BETTER FINANCE, the leading advocate for European citizens as investors, savers, shareholders, and financial services users, unveils its manifesto ahead of the upcoming European Union elections in June 2024. Entitled “Sustainable Value for Money: Reconciling Individuals, Enterprises & The Planet,” the manifesto calls for a renewed emphasis on better outcomes for consumers, long-term investment,

BETTER FINANCE’s full Response to the Targeted Consultation on SRDs – Shareholder Rights Directives (SRD1 and SRD2) for the European Commission by the CSES — [15 December 2023]. BETTER FINANCE advocates for the enforcement of investors’ and shareholders’ rights, underscoring the pivotal role of engagement as a cornerstone within robust green transition plans and corporate

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the establishment of Pension Tracking Systems (PTS) in each EU Member State as a pivotal step towards achieving pension adequacy. EU citizens, being able to easily monitor the status of their pensions pot, will be more aware and prone to actively engage with their retirement savings plans. As such, it will constitute

In an interview with the FT, Mr Hailer declares his intention to focus on the problems in the fund industry, notably the so-called closet tracking and the broader issue of whether asset managers do a good job for investors. The Bostonian is angry about closet tracking, a form of mis-selling where a fund charges high

In an article published yesterday in the Financial Times Guillaume Prache of BETTER FINANCE and Carl Rosén of the Swedish Shareholders’ Association were quoted on the topic of closet tracking funds. BETTER FINANCE highlighted the fact that it had already reported its concern to ESMA (the European Securities and Markets Authority) that “closet trackers” overcharged

As part of the recommendations set out in its White Paper “An Agenda for Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions”, the European Commission set up the Track and Trace your Pension in Europe (TTYPE) project. Under this project, six pension providers aim to develop a cost-effective European pension tracking system that offers sufficient “added value” to

The Sustainable Finance Observatory seeks to enhance understanding, tracking and evaluation of the financial sector’s gradual transformation by observers and stakeholders. The Paris Financial Centre is determined for this project to serve as a model of transparency, and the European Finance Climact project intends to promote similar initiatives in other European and international financial centres.

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

Following the Covid-19 outbreak and its effect on financial markets, BETTER FINANCE was quoted in different European press outlets on the need to keep markets open and the difficulties facing index funds in these difficult times.” So, what kind of resilience can we expect from “trackers” in a market that’s in freefall, down by 40% in

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

The BETTER FINANCE Scientific Council consists of highly skilled and experienced independent academics who help us deliver high quality research for financial services users, other stakeholders and policy-makers. The Scientific Council consists of the following members (alphabetic order): Prof. Niamh Moloney (Ireland) Prof. Dr. Jan Sebo (Slovakia) Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Veil (Germany) Mr. Nicolas Véron

On Tuesday, 19 September from 15:00 to 16:30 in the European Parliament in Brussels, a public hearing on the “New EU common system for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax abuse in the area of withholding taxes” will take place. The hearing aims to address the burdensome withholding tax refund procedures for

Individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors are significantly demotivated or hampered from investing cross-border within the EU due to: The widespread de facto double taxation of investment income within the “Single Market” (for example the so-called Belgian-French Tax Treaty to avoid double taxation is in reality organizing the double taxation of Belgian residents holding shares of French-domiciled

The OECD has published a new edition of its research book Pensions at a Glance. The report highlights the pension reforms carried out by OECD countries over the last two years and how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected pensions.  However, the problem goes far beyond the pandemic. The rapid ageing of society has altered pension systems in many countries, even halting some reforms. The

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