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After the 2023 AGM season and looking ahead to the 2024 season, BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations voice concerns about the erosion of shareholder rights. Inadequate rules for Virtual Annual General Meetings (AGMs) in some Member States highlight the need for broader engagement and representation frameworks for investors to truly benefit from digitalisation. The

Today, BETTER FINANCE, the leading advocate for European citizens as investors, savers, shareholders, and financial services users, unveils its manifesto ahead of the upcoming European Union elections in June 2024. Entitled “Sustainable Value for Money: Reconciling Individuals, Enterprises & The Planet,” the manifesto calls for a renewed emphasis on better outcomes for consumers, long-term investment,

⬇️ Read or download BETTER FINANCE’s National Key Priorities for 2024-2029 below. ⬇️ Let’s harness the Capital Markets Union’s (CMU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, retail investors and pension savers, as well as our planet, economy, and future generations. This will ensure Europe’s prosperity and security in a rapidly changing geopolitical environment.

⬇️ Read or download BETTER FINANCE’s Individual Investors’ Key Priorities for 2024-2029 below. ⬇️ Let’s harness the Capital Markets Union’s (CMU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, retail investors and pension savers, as well as our planet, the economy, and for future generations. This will ensure Europe’s prosperity and security in a rapidly

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce a new collaboration with SASV (Schweizerischer Anlegerschutzverein), the Swiss Investor Protection Association, further expanding its pan-European network. SASV is dedicated to promoting transparency within the Swiss capital market and advancing investor rights. This partnership with BETTER FINANCE aims to bolster the representation of Swiss individual investors and shareholders on

The Lithuanian Investors Association and BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, are organising the annual BETTER FINANCE International Investors’ Conference, scheduled to take place in Vilnius on May 30, 2024. The conference, titled “Vilnius 2024 | Shaping the Future of Finance,” will delve into various topics encompassing European and Baltic

The “Swiss Association for the Protection of Investors” (Schweizerische Anlegerschutzverein) is committed to transparency on the Swiss capital market and the promotion and enforcement of investor rights in Switzerland. Its purpose is to protect the interests of investors with regard to financial investments and to support them in the enforcement of their corporate and economic

Brussels, 13 October 2023 — BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, in collaboration with IVA – the Austrian Shareholder Association, is pleased to announce that the International Investors Conference at the Vienna Stock Exchange and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) got off to a great start this morning. Keynote Carmine di Noia, Director

Video RecordingPhotosConference ProgrammeSpeakers BookletWill you afford to retire? | A presentation by BETTER FINANCE & PEKABEKeynote SpeechesPanel Discussions - Background information and reading materialPress Release

BETTER FINANCE expresses concern over Deutsche Bank’s disclosure of missing Russian shares. The bank recently revealed a shortfall in the shares underlying depositary receipts (DRs), further increasing the challenges for European investors seeking to recover their investments in Russian listed companies, especially individual non-professional ones. DRs are used in international stock trading as a means

The amount of funds raised through cryptocurrencies is 30 times higher in 2017 than in 2016.  This evolution did not escape ESMA’s attention, which is now warning investors of the risk of losing ‘all of their invested capital’ when investing in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). ESMA warns that ICOs are ‘very risky and highly speculative

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

Last week, the fund industry warned that “the EU is putting the interests of exchanges over investors”. A letter from EFAMA to the EU Authorities regarding the reform of EU rules on capital markets (“MIFIR Review” in EU jargon) opposes the compensation of securities exchanges for communicating their trade data to “dark” competitors and labels

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

Read the full article [in French] in ARCAF’s website Over the years, BETTER FINANCE has warned authorities and stakeholders of the risks at stakes for Pension plan savers (Pension Savings – The Real Return). Today, the French ‘Union Mutualiste Retraite’ (UMR) just sparked a new pension scandal by cutting the pensions paid to ‘Corem’ retirees.

Original article in L’Echo Over the years BETTER FINANCE (Pension Savings – The Real Return) has warned authorities and stakeholders of the damage caused by excessive fees to the returns on long-term and pension savings in Europe. Last July, BETTER FINANCE was joined by the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) that warned investors

The EU’s top court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), warned last Friday that the bloc’s legal order could unravel if national courts started to question the primacy of EU law and ECJ decisions. […] After the German Constitutional Court’s ruling on the European Central Bank diverged from an earlier ECJ decision, the ECJ warned, in an

European Commission and MEPs warn regulator over watering down Priips performance scenarios decried as misleading EU lawmakers and regulators are at loggerheads over how to reform wildly misleading fund performance disclosures, dealing a blow to fund managers and consumer groups hoping for a reprieve from the much-maligned rules. […] Better Finance, an advocacy group representing

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

Daniel Brocklebank, UK director of Orbis Investments, warned the audience at the 72nd CFA Institute Annual Conference: Bad incentives lead to bad results, particularly when it comes to investment management. With that in mind, Brocklebank suggested that it was worth considering incentives, especially since they affect asset manager behaviour. According to him, while management fees

As representative of investors and financial services users, BETTER FINANCE has raised concerns regarding the PRIIPs KID legislative framework in terms of investor protection and in particular the fact that standardised, easily comparable and long-term past performance data (of both the product and its chosen benchmark) are eliminated under the PRIIPs delegated regulation. The elimination

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