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The Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) compromise currently on the table for a European Parliament vote blatantly disregards the interests of retail investors and the establishment of a competitive Capital Markets Union (CMU). Should Ms Yon-Courtin’s proposed compromise be approved by the ECON committee on 20th March and subsequently put to a plenary vote one month

BETTER FINANCE endorses the FSUG’s call for improved ‘Value for Money’ in retail investments. The focus is on enhancing the effectiveness of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) to contribute significantly to investors’ financial well-being. The FSUG emphasises the responsibility of product manufacturers to design products that boost investors’ financial wealth and urges supervisors

⬇️ 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

DG FISMA will be organising a roundtable on January 25th, 2024 at 10:00, where Aleksandra Maczynska, Acting Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE will address the panel on ‘Opportunities from a shorter settlement cycle in the EU’.

The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) started applying in March 2021 and requires financial market participants and financial advisers to disclose at entity and product levels how they integrate sustainability risks and principal adverse impacts in their processes at both entity and product levels. It also introduces additional product disclosures for sustainable financial products making

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

Brussels, 14 December 2023 – On December 11th, the BETTER FINANCE Scientific Council convened to discuss next year’s research program and to elect a new chairperson. The Council recommended that BETTER FINANCE continues to build on the extensive research conducted by the team and expressed support for the 2024 research program, including further research 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

Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024 | Time: 14h00 – 18h00 | Place: University Foundation, 11 Rue d’Egmont, 1000 Brussels PROGRAMME 13h30 – 14h00 | Registration & Coffee 14h00 – 14h10 | Welcome | Aleksandra Mączyńska, Acting Managing Director, BETTER FINANCE 14h10 – 14h30 | Keynote Speech | José Manuel Campa, Chair, European Banking Authority (EBA)

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

Aktiespararna, founded in 1966, is an NGO with some 60.000 individual and paying members. SARF focuses on consumer protection by lobbying for legislation that promotes and defends private investments in shares and related products. Companies in the market are monitored and SARF members professionally represented at close to 500 GAM’s each year. The private long-term investment

Amid intense debates between the regulator, industry and BETTER FINANCE over the proposal for the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP), a retirement savings investment product that stand to benefit not only European citizens as savers, but the entire E.U. economy, a story regarding the mobility of occupational pension plans stands out. A piece published by the

Carl Rosén, chief executive of the Swedish Shareholders’ Association (SSA) and vice-president of BETTER FINANCE, featured in last Sunday’s Financial Times “Face to Face” section, dedicated to people in the fund management industry. A former investment banker, Carl Rosén and the Swedish organisation caught the financial industry and media’s attention after publicly criticising some of

Carl Rosén, chief executive of the Swedish Shareholders’ Association (SSA) and vice-president of BETTER FINANCE, featured in last Sunday’s Financial Times “Face to Face” section, dedicated to people in the fund management industry. A former investment banker, Carl Rosén and the Swedish organisation caught the financial industry and media’s attention after publicly criticising some of

On November 28th BETTER FINANCE and FESE will be hosting a webinar on ‘Enhancing Retail Participation in Capital Markets Through Pension Products’. As part of European Retirement Week 2023, the webinar will assess the Retail Investment Strategy’s impact on pension investments in capital markets and explore the reasons behind Europeans’ limited investment in pension products.

Factors influencing the number of new listings/IPOs in Sweden Paper presented to the Policy Committee of ecoDa, January 2022                                                                                                                   According to the EU Commission’s report “Primary and secondary equity markets in the EU” Sweden has had a unique development of the number of new listings/IPOs between 2010 and 2018 compared to all other member

For 10 years now BETTER FINANCE points to the often-poor real net returns of long-term and pension savings (see the 2022 Edition of the Real Return) across a large number of EU jurisdictions. It is getting worse, and while a couple of years of poor performances can be made up for, the same can’t be

The Real Return 2019 – Austria The Real Return 2019 – Belgium The Real Return 2019 – Bulgaria The Real Return 2019 – Denmark The Real Return 2019 – Estonia The Real Return 2019 – France The Real Return 2019 – Germany The Real Return 2019 – Italy The Real Return 2019 – Latvia The

On Friday 26 October the joint meeting of the World Federation of Investors (WFI) and World Federation of Young Investors (WFYI) at the Paris Stock EURONEXT marked the conclusion of the annual meeting of the WFI. This year the annual meeting coincided with the 50th anniversary of the French Federation of Individual Investors and Investor

Some good news for European citizens as a new piece of E.U. legislation becomes applicable across the single market, constituting another step for further monetary and financial integration of European economies. Following the application of the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR), as of January 13th the revised Payment Services

The InsurTech wave of innovation introduces and transforms existing business models. The extensive use of third-party providers and outsourcing may lead to both as well as a possible fragmentation of the insurance value chain. Nonetheless, several incumbent insurance-related companies, more or less have become software companies. The degree of this transformation is marked by the

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