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France’s top financial regulator has urged Europe to move faster on setting common standards for environmental, social and governance investing to prevent widespread “greenwashing”. According to Robert Ophèle, chairman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the explosion in interest in ESG and the absence of EU-wide rules governing what constitutes a sustainable fund left Europe

The study by Morningstar found that out of 1,496 UK-listed open-ended funds, around 108 are run by managers named David or Dave, the equivalent to 7.2% of funds, while there are only 105 women overall managing funds. According to Emma Morgan, portfolio manager at Morningstar, “It’s a great shame that the industry is missing out

CFA institute has found, that investors were seeking fewer IPO investment opportunities and “could miss out on the returns provided by rapidly growing new businesses whilst they are kept in private hands”. The increasing ability of entrepreneurs to access private capital has encouraged a shift from public market capital-raising, and “much of the value [has

The last general assembly held by SAP on the 10th of May could be described as a wake-up call for the German multinational, which produces enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.  Whereas General Assemblies are largely routine annual events to which shareholders are invited to voice their support for the supervisory board,

SAP’s shareholders growing disaffection over executive pay The last general assembly held by SAP on the 10th of May could be described as a wake-up call for the German multinational, which produces enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.  Whereas General Assemblies are largely routine annual events to which shareholders are invited to

When taking into account pensions and lifetime savings, many citizens have significantly more money stashed away with the asset-management industry than they do with banks, yet the industry’s oligopolistic ways have ensured that fees have remained unchanged over the years resulting in some of the highest operating margins of any industry. There is one important

True Potential, a financial services and technology organisation, undertook research on the phenomenon of robo advisors and what some hail as the  end of face-to-face advice. They found that amongst those seeking financial advice, 61% of 16,000 consumers surveyed would still choose face-to-face professional advice compared to 32% who would opt for a digital advisory

The Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks, has warned that an extremely high global debt ratio across major global economies increases the vulnerability of the financial system to the monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve (Fed). Clarudio Borio, the bank’s chief economist, said that the warning signs are no longer

New City Initiative (NCI) and Open Europe reported that European financial regulations including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) are hampering growth in the asset management sector. Therefore they urge the European Commission to work on creating a single market for asset management and to

EU regulators must have the power to stop financial firms from selling toxic products that could trigger another crisis, industry watchdogs said this week, stepping up pressure on the European Commission to do more to protect retail investors. “We need legislation that deals with . . . how products are manufactured and intervention powers,” said

DWS, a German asset manager, has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for $19 million. This settlement is over greenwashing allegations and is the SEC’s highest penalty related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria against an investment adviser. An additional $6 million penalty was imposed for anti-money laundering violations, totaling $25

BETTER FINANCE answer to the European Commission’s consultation to gather evidence for the PSD2 review and to inform its work on open finance. In the light of this informative consultation on open, BETTER FINANCE advocates that consumer data should not be retained beyond what is strictly necessary to provide the service and should then be

Member States have until 31 May to actively support transparent, efficient, and accessible equity markets for retail investors and submit their written comments to the French Presidency working on the Compromise Proposal for the review of MIFIR regulation. In order to avoid a poor compromise, national policymakers should put consumer interests first and remember the

Following its Action Plan for Fair and Simple Taxation Supporting the Recovery Strategy, the Commission is taking stock of taxpayers’ existing rights under EU law and issuing a Recommendation to Member States to improve the situation of taxpayers and to simplify tax obligations. In its response to the consultation, BETTER FINANCE provides information through feedback

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Alin Iacob, the Chairman of the Association of Romanian Financial Services Users (AURSF), and Matías Martín-Gil Parra, representative of ADICAE, the Spanish Association of Users of Banks, Savings Banks and Insurance Companies, were both selected to join the European Commission’s Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG). The expert

Brussels, 23 April 2020 – The necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures taken to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world. This strategy – crucial to the fight – coupled with monetary and budgetary expansions of unseen magnitudes, will have lasting and damaging economic consequences due 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

New research by BETTER FINANCE on the Correlation between Costs and Performance of EU Retail Equity Funds without a doubt establishes a negative correlation between returns and fees Brussels, 20 June 2019 – Common knowledge has it that if you want to beat the market, you need to turn to highly active management … at

This week, on the 19 December, the new rules for cross-border payments have been given a green light by EU, as announced by the European Commission on its Press release. Such an agreement will ensure that consumers and businesses in both euro and non-euro countries would benefit from the same transactions fees between the EA and

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