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On December2, the Federation of European Accountants (FEE) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) held a joint roundtable to discuss the report by Mr Maystadt and his preliminary recommendations regarding the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Of importance in the debate with EU Stakeholders was the question whether the adoption system

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), prepared by the London-based International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), aim to standardise accounting practices internationally. In order to enhance the development of the single capital market in Europe, IFRS were introduced for consolidated accounts of EU-listed companies in 2005 as a result of a Regulation in 2002. That Regulation is

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

Norway*s High Court has ruled against banking group DNB ASA  in what represents a landmark in “closet indexing” cases. […] Norway’s largest financial services group DNB ASA is to pay back the equivalent of millions of euros to investors after the Supreme Court of Norway found for 180,000 individual investors in a class action brought by

BETTER FINANCE congratulates the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) on its historic collective redress victory in the name of individual fund investors in Europe. On Friday 28 February, the Supreme Court of Norway unanimously upheld the 2019 decision of the Oslo Court of Appeals obliging DNB ASA, Norway’s largest financial services group, to pay back the

According to the figures of the 1st quarter of 2015 recently published by AksjeNorge (“EquityNorway”), a non-profit and independent organisation, the downward trend in the number of private individual shareholders in Norway is finally reversing. And it is interesting to note that figures comparing investment trends from 2010 until 2015 show that although the number of Norwegian women investing

Finanstilsynet, the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway imposed a corrective order on Norway’s largest bank and asset manager, DNB Asset Management for closet-tracking. The fund manages more than 800 million EUR on behalf of 126.000 retail investors and has over the last 5 years charged is customers more than 40 million EUR. Finanstilsynet analysed the

The Danish financial regulator, the FSA, and its Norwegian counterpart Finanstilsynet, stated that the increasing supply of investment products marketed as sustainable can increase the risk of greenwashing, meaning products could be marketed as green without living up to the name. The FSA said that this calls for the tightening of supervisory efforts, in order

Collective Redress Directive – a directive for initiating court actions against companies who infringe consumers rights

Aksjonaerforeningen i Norge – the Norwegian Shareholders Association – represents and assists private shareholders in the Norwegian securities market. Members of the Association answer questions, provide support and safeguard the interests of retail investors to companies, brokers, fund managers and the public. Aksjonaerforeningen hosts a variety of events, seminars, conferences and lectures, and publishes the journal

As previously covered by BETTER FINANCE, shareholder activism is experiencing a new spring. As opposed to the aggressive nature of their forefathers, today`s activists put faith in cooperation and dialogue rather than conflict and public battles. While activist investors have traditionally been larger Wall Street heavyweights, it seems that this new emerging era of activism

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

Transparency Task Force is holding an online event, to draw attention to the collective redress action by Stichting Investor Loss Compensation (SILC) for individual Airbus investors who have incurred damages, and to discuss the “Power of Class Actions to get Justice”. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 4th, between 6:00 PM and 7:30 PM

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