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On 23 March, MEPs Isabel Benjumea and Stéphanie Yon-Courtin addressed the Global Money Week webinar on “Investor Education in times of High Inflation, Financial Repression & Market Volatility” jointly organised by BETTER FINANCE and EFAMA. Please find their respective full speeches below. Excerpts: Isabel Benjumea: “Investor education is a key tool for the completion of

BETTER FINANCE wishes to stress that providing EU citizens with a really safe PEPP is critical for their future pension adequacy. However, despite BETTER FINANCE’s repeated warnings and meetings with representatives of the EU citizens at the Parliament, the ECON committee today decided to adopt a capital “protection” scam for the “basic PEPP” which is

BETTER FINANCE wishes to stress that providing EU citizens with a really safe PEPP is critical for their future pension adequacy. It is happy to see that the MEPs approved some of the improvements for pension savers it has been supporting, such as: the collective redress provision, the right for independent saver associations to subscribe

European parliamentarians have been urged not to back any draft of the revised IORP Directive requiring full funding of pension fund liabilities; ahead of a crucial vote to decide the chamber’s final negotiating position. The call comes ahead of a vote by the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON), which is set to

A recent conference on the role of the asset management was held at the European Parliament. Politicians and consumer rights groups offered analysis on the added value active managed funds offer investors. Sven Giegold, a Green MEP, suggested that asset management companies have over charged investors and failed to offer investors value. The consensus of

On Wednesday, September 14, the packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) draft legislation, was rejected overwhelmingly by MEPs. PRIIPs was developed to help investors but MEPs declared that the draft legislation was “flawed and misleading”. PRIIPs will now be sent back for revision at the EU Commission.   Whereas this delay is bad news

On September 23 MEPs from the Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee met together with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to debate the EU’s current priorities on the financial agenda including the banking union. Up for discussion were the practical details of setting up a single bank resolution system and fund, the upcoming bank balance

The European Federation of Financial Services Users calls on the Members of the European Parliament to put an end to performance fees of investment funds being only a one-way street, benefitting only providers and to the detriment of retail investors. It is fine to link fund managers’ commissions to performance, but to be fair with

On Monday November 17, ECB President Mario Draghi met with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) active in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON). While pleased with the credit-easing measures package, planned purchase of covered bonds and asset-backed securities by the ECB as well as with the progress in terms of the emerging Banking

In November 2011, concerns over the “domination” of  the European Commission expert groups by business interests led the European Parliament to freeze the budget for expert groups. In September 2012, the Parliament released the budget on the understanding that expert groups would significantly improve based on conditions set by the EP which would ensure that MEPs and the Commission would work

The new President of the European Commission refers to the European Green Deal as “Europe’s man-on-moon moment”. BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the Green Deal, the most important shift in European energy policy we have seen in the last two decades. But since the devil is in the detail, it raises the question whether the proposed

After a confusing few weeks, Monday`s Eurogroup meeting announced that Spain`s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos is set to be the new vice-president of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board (ECB EB). Following a face-off with Irish central banker Phillip Lane and intense lobbying by Spanish PM Rajoy, Mr Lane`s pull-out of the race on

BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Financial Services Users, notes with concern that the panel on “relevant players in the market for long term capital” at the upcoming Conference by the European Commission and the Italian Presidency on the Capital Market Union, does not include any representatives of individual investors, although they are explicitly (and

In April 2015, Spanish MEP Soledad Cabezón took the issue of mortgage legislation and risky financial instruments in the EU, and focusing on Spain in particular, to the European Parliament Petitions Committee. Since the protection of consumer rights is a fundamental operating principle of the European Union, the matter is obviously raising eyebrows. Both the European Court of Justice and the Supreme Court in Spain already

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics has been given a new responsability and will now also function as Product Information Centre for Pensions (PiA). The role of the PiA is to simulate the performance of Riester- and Rüruppensions and rate them in terms of risks and opportunities. The Bund der Versicherten welcomes this decision, as

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