Today BETTER FINANCE launched the third edition of its annual examination of the returns on pension savings in the EU at a press conference at the Brussels Press Club.
According to the 2014 European Commission’s consumer scoreboard, the market for investment and pension products continues to be the worst performing market in Europe. As the new research report by BETTER FINANCE on the performance of private pensions in Europe shows, this lack of consumer trust is a direct consequence of the persistent inability of many financial intermediaries to deliver decent long term returns.
The 2015 Edition of “Pension Savings: The Real Return” now covers 15 EU countries, representing 85% of the EU population and encompassing up to 15 years of returns on pension savings (2000 to 2014). It is once again the only publication to provide such comprehensive data on the real net returns on pension savings in the EU and, in doing so, has become the main source of information on the actual performance of long-term “retail” investment products for European financial supervisors and consumers alike.
Read the press release here.
The full PDF version of the report can be downloaded here. Should you like to order a physical copy please contacts us at info(at)betterfinance.eu.
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