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Earlier this week, President Obama announced a new initiative to end conflicts of interests and minimize hidden fees in connection with retirement savings. This is the White House response to the US retirement crisis with too few people saving for retirement and too many saving not enough. Currently, US citizens have hard time navigating through

In its latest Newsletter, Better Markets reflects on Obama’s State of the Union speech of 21st January 2015. The Washington DC based public-interest organization applauds Obama’s resolve to use his veto to prevent attacks to weaken or kill financial reform: As the President recognizes, it is vital to the strength of our nation that financial

Whereas Shareholder rights have been reinforced in Europe (Shareholders Rights Directive), in the US, after several years of progress, it looks like they may be headed in the wrong direction.  Despite its title, the “Financial Choice Act” – the bill passed by the House of Representatives two weeks ago – is seen as a gift

A new regulation raising standards for investment managers entered into force last week in the US, protecting investors and worrying active assets managers.  Drawn up by the Obama Administration, this new fiduciary rule applies to the $16tn retirement investment market and is expected to spell the end of financial advisers recommending expensive funds to clients

Dozens of Volkswagen AG officials in Germany have hired U.S. criminal defense lawyers as the Justice Department ramps up meetings with managers to gather evidence that may lead to charges against executives, people familiar with the matter said. U.S. authorities have traveled to Germany to arrange interviews with managers and seek cooperation in their probe

Following the 2008 financial crisis, a financial reform package aimed at preventing a recurrent crisis, addressing the so-called“too big to fail” issue and promoting financial stability, was enacted. This week the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act celebrates its fifth anniversary since US President Barack Obama signed it. Although some successes are recognised, the slow process of reform has also been at

10 February 2023 | As EU policymakers continue their negotiations on the MiFIR review, BETTER FINANCE is increasingly alarmed that the regulation could severely hurt retail investors, by putting in place a market structure further benefitting dark Systematic Internalisers (SIs). Ignoring the previous plea from BETTER FINANCE and going against the interests of retail investors,

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

Even though progress was made following the financial crisis and it has since been widely recognized that banks across Europe should no longer be able to rely on tax payers’ money to protect them from the consequences of their risky behaviour, the European Commission’s latest proposal took many by surprise. The proposal suggests that the

In December 2013 the subordinated bondholders in five Slovenian banks (NLB, NKBM, Abanka, Probanka and Factor Banka) were bailed-in to refinance these struggling institutions. Subordinated bonds in a sixth bank (Banka Celje) were wiped out in December 2014. In each case the bail-in consisted of a complete wipe-out of all subordinated bonds, including those sold

“It is time for regulators to investigate sales practices at banks”, says Madison Marriage, Journalist for the FT. According to Cerulli, a research company, 90 per cent of the money that entered Europe’s fund industry between 2009 and 2013 went to independent asset managers. This figure raises the disconcerting question of whether the “open architecture”

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