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Pension funds are supposed to focus on the long-term with a  natural investment perspective stretching decades. From this perspective their policies should  keep a keen eye on the future of the planet. Although this should be common sense, research conducted by Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP), managed by BETTER FINANCE’s UK member ShareAction, shows that 90% of the

In September 2015 the European Commission adopted an Action Plan setting out a list of over 30 actions and related measures to establish a Capital Market Union (CMU) by 2019. Despite the progress that has been made to date, Europe’s capital markets remain fragmented along national lines. The risk, with issues such as Brexit and the European

U.S. developments Over the last months, it has been reported that Volkswagen reached a 15 billion dollar settlement with the authorities, the consumers and the car dealers in the United States. Contrary to these developments, Volkswagen has raised a motion to dismiss the ADR investor case. The judge will hear this motion during a trial

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

Juan Manuel Viver, Policy Officer at BETTER FINANCE was interviewed yesterday by Euradionantes to  express BETTER FINANCE’s views on the SRM (Single Resolution Mechanism) implemented as of 1st January 2016 in the Euro area. Mariarosa Borroni, Professor of Financial Intermediaries at the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Università Cattolica in Piacenza explains the

The verdict is catastrophic: the costs of products under collective management are so high that they "rewarded" unitholders with a loss of about one third of their savings between 1999 and 2014. Conversely, individual shareholders who during the same period invested directly in French shares, provided sufficiently diversified portfolios, have seen returns equivalent to at

Shortly after the adoption of the Commission’s work programme 2015, an interview with Commissioner Hill conducted by Bloomberg was published earlier today, December 17. If you have been following the latest financial news, you might have stumbled upon articles decrying the intention to scrap the structural banking reform, as suggested in Hill’s letter to Timmermans.

Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, was quoted in the Investment and Pensions Europe magazine on the draft proposal of the Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD) voted last week at the European Parliament. With non-insurance pension products still left aside, the final version of the revised directive will enter in the trialogue phase, with negotiations

Dear Mr Draghi, I am writing this open letter to you, because I am deeply concerned about the old-age provisions of millions of EU-citizens. I am head of a consumer organization (the Bund der Versicherten) and we are fighting for the rights of the insured and we care about old-age provisions, too. Mainly we look

Financial products and services in Europe have a bad rep. Not only do “investment products, private pension and securities” persistently rank as the worst of all 31 consumer markets according to the annual EU Consumer Scoreboard1, these markets also lag considerably behind others in terms of cross-border trade, thereby severely limiting competitiveness. In short, financial