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The Briefing Paper by BETTER FINANCE, 2° Investing Initiative and WWF focuses on the Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products (PRIIPs) Regulation and provides recommendations for sustainability disclosure. While a legislative review of PRIIPs is planned, we suggest an omnibus regulation that will effectively harmonise product-level disclosures. The briefing elaborates on one of the recommendations

The PRIIPs Regulation is the first to deal with pre-contractual information in the form of key information documents (KIDs). These documents have to be provided by those producing or selling investment products to consumers.

Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) cover the range of investment products marketed to retail investors which are subject to an investment risk.

The EU offers pre-contractual information to non-professional investors before purchasing its investment products. Since 2018, the same Key Information Document (KID) has been used for these Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Products (PRIIPs). The European Commission asked the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to survey the different stakeholders, beneficiaries, and issuers of the PRIIPs KID. The objective of this survey is to know

More than a year after the entry into force of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and of the Regulation on Key Information Document for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs KID), BETTER FINANCE sought the views and experience of its member associations and their individual members on the effectiveness of

EU authorities should prioritise the long overdue full PRIIPs Regulation review, and the UCITS funds’ exemption should be extended until this review is completed, as intended by EU Law. The organisations representing individual, non-professional investors and financial analysts advise the European Commission, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and the EU co-legislators against further delaying the

17 April – GREEN BALANCING ACT: Fund managers and investor advocates are at odds over the criteria intended to single out best-in-class green investment funds in the EU. 22 April – REWRAPPING PACKAGED INVESTMENTS: The battle is heating up — again — over how best to express the performance profile of financial products to consumers

Dear Ms Tingali, Dear Members of the ECON Committee, “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”. (Ezra Solomon, Stanford Professor of Finance) We are writing to you in our capacity as executives of major EU public interest organisations working on financial services and representing the interests of the 190 million

BETTER FINANCE’s response to the European Supervisory Authorities’ (ESAs) Joint Committee (JC) public consultation paper concerning amendments to the PRIIPs KID (JC 2019 63, 16 October 2019) Link to consultation: https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/consultations/joint-consultation-concerning-amendments-priips-kid Link to paper: https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/library/jc-2019-63_consultation_paper_amendments_priips_kid.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY General approach and review As mandated by EU Law, the review process should have started with the Level

PRIIP Key Information Document – A regulation to enable investors to compare financial products and make informed decisions

Impact investors (in the end followed by Blackrock and others) just managed to force two new directors into EXXON Board (biggest oil company in the World) who will push to accelerate the energy transition. Why is this extremely important: major oil companies’ free cash flows (net of investments) will likely reach $ 200 billion this year

On Monday 27 March, the ECON Committee of the European Parliament voted on an early non-objection of the delegated act for the implementation of the PRIIPs (Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based products) which should enter into force in January 2018 (initially scheduled for January 2017).  Sven Giegold, Member of the ECON Committee,

BETTER FINANCE alongside with fund managers and Politicians have failed to persuade the European Union to implement amendments that were aimed at making documents easier to understand and more reliable for investors. Guillaume Prache, managing director of BETTER FINANCE, said the European Commission’s decision last week to sign off the rules without any amendments was

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

KBC Against Small Savers? The CEO of the Belgian bank, KBC, has expressed criticism regarding the tax advantage granted to one-year government bonds. However, a more pressing concern lies in understanding why KBC, along with the majority of Belgian banks, offers less than 1% interest on savings for small one-year savers while being able to

BETTER FINANCE calls for restricting “dark” capital market venues to REAL Large-in-scale (LIS) trades, i.e., of more than €100k each, to really prevent them from dealing with “retail” orders. Current Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) proposals “surreal” and don’t respond to citizens’ questions. A real-time pre-trade Consolidated Tape (CT) of equity order books will put

La digitalización del sistema financiero y la velocidad con la que cambian los productos financieros unido a la escasa formación de las personas mayores ha hecho de este colectivo un blanco fácil de grandes fraudes y abusos. Causados en muchos casos, por el exceso de confianza en las entidades financieras.

[Archived: The Survey is now Closed] It’s all about retail shareholder democracy in Europe! Did you try to vote (or did you successfully vote) at Shareholders Meetings of EU Companies in 2022? If not, there is still time, AGMs of companies are still ongoing. • Let us know your experience: Survey Open, until 10 September

Lately, many shareholders in public limited companies have turned to the PanSlovenian Shareholders’ Association (VZMD) and stated that they have received various letters and very strange offers from IGOR ŠTEMBERGER, the CEO and owner of ILIRIKA bornz-posredniška družba, d.d. (a brokerage company). In certain cases, the offered prices for shares were extremely low. In others, they offered shareholders shares of the company ILIRIKA MOJA

Dear Members and Friends, We were very saddened to learn of the death of Roger Ganser, the former Chair of the World Federation of Investors (WFI), on 16 July 2021. BETTER FINANCE and WFI maintain a very close relationship since many years. Both international investor organisations also share many members and frequently hold joint events.

“Behavioural finance experts [at Oxford Risk] have found financial advisers can give “remarkably different” advice from each other to the same clients based on factors including sleep or how long since the adviser last ate.” They said that recommendations “were closer to totally random than totally consistent” and were, furthermore, dependent on advisors’ personal characteristics

“It’s true that political salesmen can market a mythology and iconography that entice people into privileging a religion, ethnicity, or nation as their fundamental identity. With the right package of indoctrination and coercion, they can even turn them into cannon fodder. That does not mean that nationalism is a human drive. Nothing in human nature

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, is organising the Investor Education Day on 30 October, looking at the importance of financial literacy, recent developments in financial education research and policy, best practices and how to best evaluate and measure the effectiveness of financial education initiatives. Speakers and panelists at the event include Eleni Tampaki,

Today, Alin Iacob, Chairman of the Association of Romanian Financial Services Users, vice chair of the EBA Banking Stakeholder Group and Board Member of BETTER FINANCE, participated in a Panel Discussion on Retail Conduct Supervision at the Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day 2017. He brought the perspective from Central and Eastern Europe on this important

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