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According to a study brought up by the Financial Times, private investors seeking to question company strategy at annual general meetings are increasingly being ignored as Annual General Meetings (AGM) have moved online to adapt to the pandemic and confinement measures. Only 36 per cent of questions posed to companies by shareholders at virtual AGMs

Since the launch of a project by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to raise awareness of pension scams, there has been a 462% jump in the number of the ScamSmart website visitors. Additionally, over 370 pension holders were warned about an unauthorised firm thanks to the Warning List, an online

European investor lobby group Better Finance has urged the European Commission to develop an ‘action plan’ to help citizens with financial matters. Presenting its sixth annual research study on pension savings earlier this month, Guillaume Prache, head of the consumer lobby, called for the Commission’s Consumer Financial Services Action Plan to be extended beyond its

A little more than a week ago, BETTER FINANCE announced the results of its replication of the ESMA investigation into Closet Indexing. Following up on this announcement, today BETTER FINANCE launches www.checkyourfund.eu, allowing stakeholders and individual investors to go through the results of the research and, in some cases, find out whether their investments are

A little more than a week ago, BETTER FINANCE announced the results of its replication of the ESMA investigation into Closet Indexing. Following up on this announcement, today BETTER FINANCE launches www.checkyourfund.eu, allowing stakeholders and individual investors to go through the results of the research and, in some cases, find out whether their investments are

According to Guillaume Prache, "the younger generations do not turn to their bank clerk for savings advice”. “We are witnessing the emergence of a large multifaceted consulting sector online, . Alongside the sites of the traditional players of the finance world, there are now purely online services. The rapid development of FinTech – the practice

Factors influencing the number of new listings/IPOs in Sweden Paper presented to the Policy Committee of ecoDa, January 2022                                                                                                                   According to the EU Commission’s report “Primary and secondary equity markets in the EU” Sweden has had a unique development of the number of new listings/IPOs between 2010 and 2018 compared to all other member

The recent ARTE documentary titled “The Future of our Pensions” explores how to make the EU pensions system more effective at providing adequate returns. This in-depth feature examines pension systems throughout the European Union and includes interviews with policymakers, scholars, stakeholders, and retirees to provide a comprehensive look at the current state of pensions in

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

‘The Value of Financial Advice’ is an upcoming conference organized by Nordic Finance and the Good Society in Frederiksberg, Denmark. A number of esteemed keynote speakers from academia and the financial services sector will share their insights on the role of financial advice for financial decision-making. Register here.

EIOPA consulted on the review of IORP II Directive, which governs occupational pension schemes in the EU. BETTER FINANCE’s response to the consultation focuses on protecting the interests of pension scheme participants. BETTER FINANCE proposes changing the terms “beneficiaries” and “members” to “participants” to accurately reflect the stakeholders involved. BETTER FINANCE also highlights the lack

BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo-advice with this seventh annual edition (2022), mapping a sample of platforms that provide online Robo-advisory investing services, by analysing their (automated) advice process in terms of transparency, costs, portfolio composition, suitability and sustainability options and preferences for the client. This edition’s analysis focuses on Robo-advisors’ ability to

In response to warnings about an “advice gap” if inducements – or rather sales commissions – were to be banned, BETTER FINANCE stresses that there can be no “advice gap” if there’s no “advice”: biased advice is not really advice. The discussion in Brussels between advocates and opponents of bias-free advice (the stated objective of

On 28 November 2022, BETTER FINANCE together with BEUC and Finance Watch, published a public letter addressed to Vice-President Dombrovskis, and Commissioners McGuinness and Reynders, to encourage them to continue with an ambitious approach with regards to the Retail Investment Strategy and the stated goal of creating bias-free advice.    

On 27 July 2022 BETTER FINANCE wrote to Commissioner McGuinness to stress the importance of individual investors’ access to bias-free advice for the success of the Capital Markets Union and investor protection. In its letter BETTER FINANCE proposes a staggered approach as follows: Harmonising EU investor protection rules across all EU retail investment product sectors

The European Union has two initiatives whose main objectives are to “ensure bias-free advice”: the “Capital Markets Union” Action Plan and the EU Strategy for Retail Investors. The dominant distribution model in Europe is commission-based (suppliers pay sales commissions to retail distributors, often surprisingly labelled as “investment advisors”), so it is the conflicts of interest in the distribution of retail investment

INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATIONS (for non-professional readers) European Union (EU) authorities aim to improve the conditions of saving and investing in capital markets for EU households through several regulatory and supervisory actions. Currently, most of these initiatives stem from the recommendations of the High-Level Forum on the Future of the Capital Markets Union,[1] on which the European

Extreme divergences between platforms and investor profiles in terms of asset allocation and expected returns reveal significant deficiencies in the suitability of the algorithms’ investment recommendations. From virtual meetings and parties to shopping and dating online, people have en masse moved countless aspects of their lives into the virtual sphere due to restrictions imposed by

BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo advice with this sixth annual edition, mapping start-up platforms that provide Robo-advisory and investing services, and analysing their user-friendliness, transparency, costs, portfolio composition, the suitability of their recommendations, and sustainability (through mystery shopping). This year the research team selected 18 platforms providing investment advice in 11 countries

The Netherlands and Denmark have the best pensions systems in the world, according to a global study by Mercer. The survey examined 37 nations using 40 metrics to assess whether a system leads to adequate income replacement for retirees, whether it is sustainable and whether it has the trust and confidence of the community. According

Yesterday Oxera released a report entitled “The design of equity trading markets in Europe – An economic analysis of price formation and market data services” commissioned by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE). Through this research, FESE is seeking to inform the debate on the design of equity trading markets in Europe, particularly when

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