EU investment managers are pushing for the right to keep commissions for promoting financial products, as the bloc considers changes to its controversial Mifid laws that govern financial markets. Financial advisors hope that they can fend off a move by the Netherlands and consumer groups to totally ban third-party incentive payments across a broad range
Behind the abbreviations multiplying non-stop there are hidden nuances of the financial products in which you invest. More often than not, all these acronyms are used to designate the same thing: investment funds in transferable securities (stocks, bonds or other debt or interest rate products). “These prejudices sometimes contribute to making the supply of funds
In a letter to European commissioners, BETTER FINANCE said that investors would have to wait another full general meeting period to be able to exercise their voting right if SRD II’s implementation is postponed. As a number of stakeholders are demanding the commission to postpone the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II),
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
BETTER FINANCE’s take on an EU Ecolabel was taken up in Politico’s story on Sustainable Finance: “European fund managers and investor advocates are at odds over the criteria intended to single out best-in-class green investment funds in the EU. The EU’s research arm proposed a series of thresholds that funds would have to exceed, measured
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
Following the Covid-19 outbreak and its effect on financial markets, BETTER FINANCE was quoted in different European press outlets on the need to keep markets open and the difficulties facing index funds in these difficult times.” So, what kind of resilience can we expect from “trackers” in a market that’s in freefall, down by 40% in
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
The EU’s nascent sustainable funds label has been amended after being described as ‘too ambitious and not achievable’ […] The Ecolabel is an existing EU certification awarded to a range of products which meet high environmental standards aimed at end consumers. The scheme is being extended to include financial products for the first time to
DATE Publication and Article Title (with links) 26/01/2018 FT – Slippage causes confusion in Mifid II fund rules row 05/02/2018 Les Echos – La réforme de l’épargne-retraite divise les professionnels 08/02/2018 La Libre – PRIIPs Un règlement qui trompe linvestisseur 14/02/2018 Law360 – Blocwide Pensions Don’t Prevent Dangers, Groups Warn 04/03/2018 Financial News – Asset