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On the 8th of June, Helen Gibbons, Board Member of BETTER FINANCE, will be speaking in a Project Lab on "Financial Education for the Promotion of Social and Financial Inclusion" organized by BBVA and the European Commission. This event is part of the European Development days ( EDD). Find more information on this event here 

After the 2023 AGM season and looking ahead to the 2024 season, BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations voice concerns about the erosion of shareholder rights. Inadequate rules for Virtual Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in some Member States highlight the need for broader engagement and representation frameworks for investors to truly benefit from digitalisation. The

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,

For long‐term and pension savers, the year 2022 was undoubtedly a calamitous one. Poor capital market performance and sky‐rocketing inflation across all European Union (EU) Member States resulted in disastrous returns, both in nominal and real terms, for virtually all of the product categories analysed in this report. This comes after a year 2021 that

The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 – Austria The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 – Belgium The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 – Bulgaria The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 – Croatia The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 – Denmark

For long‐term and pension savers, the year 2022 was undoubtedly a calamitous one. Poor capital market performance and sky‐rocketing inflation across all European Union (EU) Member States resulted in disastrous returns, both in nominal and real terms, for virtually all of the product categories analysed in this report. This comes after a year 2021 that

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, has released its Pensions Report 2023, uncovering the dire challenges confronting long-term and pension savers across 17 EU Member States in the aftermath of a tumultuous 2022. In what is termed an “annus horribilis,” the report exposes the setbacks faced by savers, with disastrous

Transition investing refers to capital needed to improve economic activities, that are not environmentally friendly at present. Such capital supports the development of innovation and infrastructure, enabling current activities to eventually achieve climate neutrality. The European Commission’s release of the transition finance ‘Recommendation’[1] emphasised the importance of such investments for Europe’s pursuit of environmentally conscious

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

As part of the European Responsible Investment Network (ERIN), BETTER FINANCE has joined forces with ShareAction and other NGOs to launch an EU Elections Manifesto, urging EU policymakers to take bold action on sustainable finance. Within this manifesto, we have outlined our key recommendations for the upcoming European Commission: Accelerate investments in Europe’s transition to

CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) manages a global environmental disclosure system used by more than 9,600 companies. Companies disclose by completing any or all of the three CDP questionnaires of climate change, forests, and water security. CDP also includes an optional 4th supply chain reporting module. CDP publishes the scores of reporting companies on

Intangibles are critical to the business model of many companies, and fundamental for explaining the value creation process particularly as we continue to move towards a knowledge-based economy. Notwithstanding their relevance, they largely do not appear on financial statements or in the related disclosures, especially when they are internally generated. In this light, EFRAG (the

[…] The European Commission’s so-called “taxonomy” for classifying green investments should address three important questions. Unfortunately, the Commission’s one-dimensional approach disregards two of the three, with potentially damaging consequences. […] The Commission’s focus on the question of which economic activities are sustainable entails defining and listing all activities that contribute to the energy transition, such

Brussels, 12 November 2019 – More than five years ago, the EU laid the foundation for a Capital Markets Union that would, at last, create the single market for capital foreseen 62 years ago in the Treaty of Rome, develop capital market funding for the real economy and provide better returns for EU citizens as

On Thursday 28 June, the European fund and asset management industry body issued a press release stressing the worrying shortcomings of the rules governing the Key Information Documents (KID) for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). This follows the publication of its Evidence Paper that found that the new methodology for calculating transaction costs

On Thursday 28 June, the European fund and asset management industry body issued a press release stressing the worrying shortcomings of the rules governing the Key Information Documents (KID) for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). This follows the publication of its Evidence Paper that found that the new methodology for calculating transaction costs

BETTER FINANCE, as a representative of the users of financial services, develops projects and campaigns that advocate and defend the interests of end-users as well as other stakeholders. On this page, the user can find on this page the actions that BETTER FINANCE undertakes to fulfil this objective, as well as information and support tools. Some of the projects

PEPP: what is it?     After a public consultation and several months of work, the European Commission released the long-waited proposal on Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) last week. This new kind of voluntary personal pension is designed to give savers more choice when they are putting money aside for old age and provide

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