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A new study from London’s Cass Business School found that smaller hedge funds perform better during times of crisis. The analysis of the performance of 7261  hedge funds from 1994 to 2014 shows that a hedge fund with with £200m of assets would on average outperform a £5bn hedge fund by 125 basis points a year. The research,

Whereas hedge funds performed comparatively well during the financial crisis, the unstable post-recovery market has seen equity hedge funds producing profits of less than 15 per cent. According to data ranging from 2010 to 2013 hedge funds did not manage to beat overall stock markets and mutual funds’ performance. Equity hedge funds have produced just

  On October 6, Financial Times published an article about how hedge funds’ managers use expenses claims to cover travel by private jet and other luxury items directly through the funds they manage. This relatively short piece of news has sparked a heated debate. The funds have reportedly served to cover inter alia salaries, marketing,

According to the Financial News at least eight hedge-fund firms have announced their intention to close their business due to uncertain markets, tighter regulation and "investors with ever-shorter time horizons". Read the full article here. (Source: Financial News)

Aimed at certifying the most virtuous funds, the SRI label, which has just been reformed by the government, now excludes companies with new oil projects. Guillaume Prache denounces an ideological reform that risks favoring foreign oil and gas companies. The reform of France’s SRI (socially responsible investment) label, as announced by the French Ministry of

Keynote address by Jella Benner-Heinacher on market structures, “retail” investors, and payments for order flows (PFOF) Thank you for the invitation and congratulations to FESE to organize such an impressive conference in Prague. I would have loved to be personally in this beautiful city of Prague but unfortunately, I can only attend virtually. Nevertheless, I

In January, the market value of American video game and electronics retailer GameStop, driven by an “army” of “retail” investors[1], shot up from $1.4 billion to $33.7 billion.  This dramatic increase in stock price caused hedge funds that were shorting[2] GameStop to “suffer” significant losses and accuse retail investors of market manipulation. This standoff between

The European Commission (EC) launched two separate public consultations on the review of the regulatory framework for alternative investment funds (AIFs) and European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs). However, since ELTIFs are a sub-set of AIFs, for reasons of simplicity, BETTER FINANCE decided to gather input from its members in a joint document. The very name

After Herz, a car-rental company based in Florida,  filed for bankruptcy in May 2019, some bankers  “jokingly” said that they “hope the company would sell a few hundred million worth of stock.” Unfortunately, it seems that this fit of sarcasm is slowly becoming a reality after judge Mary Walmarth ruled a bankruptcy court in favour of Herz, giving

In 2016, BETTER FINANCE joined the The Stichting Volkswagen Investors’ Claim in order to help investors obtain redress for “Dieselgate” scandal (information can be found here) Now, time has come for high-ranking Volkswagen executives to testify in court in a case concerning the stock market fray between Volkswagen’s biggest shareholders. A German court will begin hearing

BETTER FINANCE agrees with ESMA that names can be misleading if those funds do not invest in line with what their names would suggest.

ESMA’s Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms in their names propose the use of quantitative thresholds whereby “if an investment fund has any ESG-, or impact-related words in its name, a minimum proportion of 80% of its investments should be used to meet the environmental or social characteristics or sustainable investment objectives…”

EU Law rightly requires information provided to individual investors to be clear, i.e., “presented in a way that is likely to be understood by, the average member of the group to whom it is directed, or by whom it is likely to be received”, and as such, retail investors expect definitions and classifications of funds

In this video, BETTER FINANCE, INVESTAS and F2iC have put together the most important information on what you need to know about funds and how to invest in them.

An analysis by ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has shed light on the costs and performance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) funds compared to non-ESG funds. The findings reveal that ESG funds have lower costs and better performance, even after considering factors such as portfolio composition. Understanding the drivers behind these differences

In 2021, the total income generated by securities lending operations globally stood at €7.8 billion, up by 21% compared to 2020. The majority of operations and lenders are outside the EU, and around 88% of securities on loan were sovereign bonds and equities. In the EU, lenders cannot derive any profit from securities lending. All

As stated by ESMA “the COVID-19 crisis offers the opportunity to test the hypothesis [often claimed by the industry] that active equity UCITS outperform their benchmarks during stressed market conditions”. In light of this period of market downturn followed by a quick recovery and then stabilisation, ESMA analysed a sample of actively managed equity UCITS funds,

BETTER FINANCE’s Managing Director, Guillaume Prache, participated to the last episode (Are consumers being mis-sold investment funds?) of the podcast Fair and Square, part by Fideres. Fideres is an international economic consulting firm that specializes in investigating corporate and financial wrongdoing. In this episode, the programme delves into issues such as disguised index funds (closet indexing), false

16 juillet 2021 – La population européenne vieillit… Ajoutez à ce constat le fait que les comptes d’épargne des citoyens européens perdent rapidement de leur pouvoir d’achat (avec des taux d’intérêt bancaires inférieurs à l’inflation), et il devient évident que les épargnants doivent chercher des solutions différentes. Vu sous cet angle, l’avenir de la population

Following on the heels of its 2020 video on “why to invest in shares?” (published exclusively in French), BETTER FINANCE now launches a new educational video on “Investing in Funds”, in English as well as in French. This latest video takes a deeper look at investment funds in Europe and explains how individual investors can

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