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The Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament (ECON) voted yesterday on the Regulation for a Key Information Document for investment products (formerly known as “PRIPs”). EuroFinUse praises the European Parliament for voting for more consistency in summary information for investors, but is quite concerned that a majority of the critical long term and

On October 18, EuroFinUse and the Austrian Shareholder Association (IVA) held an international conference on “The Financial Repression of Savers and Investors”, in Vienna. International authorities from the private and public sectors discussed the alleged inevitability of Financial Repression and proposed solutions to face this issue. The event held at the Vienna Insurance Group was

Yesterday EuroFinUse, WWF and VoteWatch Europe were the last remaining candidates standing at the coveted European Public Affairs Awards, eagerly awaiting the announcement of the winner of the “NGO of The Year” category. The EPA awards single out organisations for excellence in their respective sector, while aiming to encourage best practice in the European public affairs

The European Federation of Financial Services Users releases its research report on the real return of pension savings. This research confirms, broadens and deepens the OECD 2012 Pensions Reportconclusions which revealed negative real returns on average for pension funds.  Our research adds other pension savings than pension funds, includes France (not covered by the OECD

EuroFinUse invites you to the Conference on the BETTER FINANCE MANIFESTO which will take place at the European Parliament on March 28. Whereas there are many challenges ahead, few are as acute as dealing with the fallout of the financial crisis. In order to shore up the real economy, protect savers and investors, concentrate on long term

On 26 March, EuroFinUse, the only organisation dedicated to defend the rights of European financial services users, organised a high-level conference on the audit reform, hosted by British MEP Sajjad Karim, to discuss the proposals linked to audit tenure, non-audit services policy, quality, transparency, pricing as well as those targeting the role of audit committees

At the EuroFinUse General Assembly, on 25 March 2013, Jean Berthon was elected as President to head the one and only organization dedicated to defend the rights of financial users. On January 1st 2013, Euroshareholders and EuroFinUse – the two European organizations representing individual shareholders, investors, savers and other financial services users – merged to

EuroFinUse praises the Eurogroup statement from late Monday in favor of fully guaranteeing deposits below EUR 100,000. Moreover, we believe bank depositors should not pay for the excesses of the banking industry and or governments. Therefore, depositors should be protected from bearing the bulk of the Cypriot rescue package. Full Press Release

EuroFinuse, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, is closely following the debate onthe “UCITS V Directive” that is currently focusing on depositories’ liabilities and asset managers’remuneration.These are two major issues that have to be tackled by EU institutions, as they were exposed as theweakest part of the UCITS framework during the financial crisis. Performance

EuroFinUse is very pleased that MEP Pervenche Beres’ amendments on PRIPs match our demands in relation to the inclusion of shares and bonds and other bank savings products, life insurance products as well as the disclosure of inducements paid by the provider to the seller. Press Release

The Regulation 2017/826 of  17 May 2017 establishing a Union programme to support specific activities enhancing the involvement of consumers and other financial services end-users in Union policy-making in the area of financial services for the period of 2017-2020 was published on Friday 19 May.  This regulation will support the activities carried out by Finance Watch

The report should be of particular interest to anyone who wishes to look beyond national borders to how policymakers in other EU countries are dealing with similar issues in the areas of life insurance, non-life products (property, accident and health insurance) and old-age provision. The reports looks at questions pertaining to premium income, consumer complaints

In 2014, BETTER FINANCE, had asked ESMA to carry out an EU-wide investigation on closet indexing. At the beginning of February 2016, ESMA eventually released results of its investigation but failed to disclose those funds that were uncovered by its investigation as potentially falsely active.  BETTER FINANCE therefore decided to replicate the research by ESMA

UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published final rules for charges in workplace pension schemes applicable from 6 April 2015. This step is considered advantageous for savers, as the decision requires firms operating workplace pension schemes to implement a 0.75 % charge cap for automatic enrolment funds. Under the new rules, all employers are obliged to

EuroFinUse published its Position Paper on the European Commission Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance. In an effort to complement and improve the proposal  we focus on those points which in our opinion have not been addressed: – The lack of response to the problems of cross-border shareholder voting; – The establishment of

BETTER FINANCE members UK Shareholders’ Association and ShareSoc (UK Individual Shareholders Society) published a letter expressing disappointment in the news that the UK government is abandoning some of its reforms to accounting standards: It is difficult to overstate the disappointment of investors, and other users of corporate information, at the news that the UK government

On 19 October 2023, BETTER FINANCE together with BEUC, Finance Watch and WWF, published a public letter addressed to Ms. Yon-Courtin and to the European Parliament’s shadow rapporteurs, expressing disappointment in the Omnibus and PRIIPs draft report in the Retail Investment Strategy file. ➡ BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on the Retail Investment Strategy ➡ BETTER

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, has published a position paper on the European Commission’s Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) proposals. The organisation fully supports the EC’s RIS objectives: consistent rules, enhanced retail investor protection, unbiased advice, competitive financial markets, and transparent and comparable product information. The RIS constitutes a once-in-a-lifetime

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the objectives of the Listing Act review put forward by the European commission to make EU Capital Markets more attractive for companies, particularly for SMEs.[1] Investor associations have long emphasised that to revitalise the Capital Markets Union, the EU’s primary and secondary markets need a boost, that is, greater participation from EU

The European Commission today published its long-awaited proposal on the digital euro, marking a significant milestone in the digitalisation of public money. The document sets the stage for a democratic debate, as the project moves from its investigation phase by the European Central Bank to the chambers of the European Parliament and the Council. Cash,

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal for the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) put forward by the European Commission (EC) on 24 May 2023. We fully share the goals that the EC pursues with this initiative ‘rules that are coherent across legal instruments’; ‘adequate protection’‘bias-free advice and fair treatment’; ‘open markets with a variety of competitive and

The draft Regulation on ESG ratings proposed by the European Commission in June 2023 aims to establish a framework and tackle structural issues by combating possible conflicts of interests, imposing better transparency in the rating processes, and introducing an authorisation and supervision system for ESG rating providers (for both EU and non-EU entities). Although commendable,

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