Today FTfm, the FT’s review of the fund management industry, dedicated two articles to BETTER FINANCE’s 2015 edition of “Pension Savings: The Real Return”, to be announced this Wednesday 30 September at the Brussels Press Club. The third edition of our research report now covers the performance of the market for investment and pension products in Europe in 15 EU
This investigation follows probes launched by Denmark and Sweden over the past six months. The Dutch investment market is bigger than the Danish and Swedish combined, with investment assets of €469 billion and about 200 asset management companies. If any substantial wrong-doing is detected, the Netherlands Authority for Financial Markets has the power to ban
"Pension Savings: The Real Return" was mentioned in an article in The Telegraph. The article focus on how British pensions perform "worse than in most of Europe". BETTER FINANCE’s report shows savers’ pension funds are worth 10 per cent less than in 2000 due to high charges in the UK. BETTER FINANCE, which lobbies the EU on
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
EuroFinUse was quoted by the Financial News on the Regulation for Key Information Documents (KID) for investment products. Juan Manuel Viver, EuroFinUse’s Policy Officer, spoke on the fragmentation of MEPs’ views on the scope for the KID Regulation. Read the full article here
19 October 2017 – BETTER FINANCE elected Jella Benner-Heinacher, the Deputy Chief Executive of Germany’s oldest and largest association for private investors DSW, as its new President. This story was followed-up by a cover in the German financial publication, Börsen Zeitung, in the article ‘Benner-Heinacher elected as President of BETTER FINANCE’ (original Benner-Heinacher zur Präsidentin
For those investors considering starting legal action against Volkswagen prior to September 18, 2016 in order to avoid the risk of their claims being time barred, the Foundation and DSW, Germany’s oldest and largest association for private investors, recommend to contact the well-respected German law firm Nieding + Barth Rechtsanwaltsaktiengesellschaft that offers investors a method
TORONTO, 26th of May 2016 – The exceptional insight and writing talents of three Canadian financial print journalists have garnered Morningstar’s Rudy Luukko and the Globe and Mail’s Rob Carrick and Ian McGugan the top three prizes of the 2016 PMAC Award for Excellence in Investment Journalism, presented by Canada’s influential non-profit industry association, the
Better Markets applauds labour Department’s (DOL) historic rule beating Wall Street and putting retirement savers’ best interests first by requiring that brokers and other financial advisers giving retirement advice must put their clients’ best interests first, which will protect hardworking retirement savers from conflicts of interest. Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of Better Markets declared:
DSW, Germany’s oldest and largest association of private investors and member of BETTER FINANCE, partnered up with the Netherlands-based foundation STICHTING VOLKSWAGEN INVESTORS CLAIM in order to represent aggrieved VW investors in the DieselGate case. The Foundation seeks to settle with Volkswagen out of court, with a potential agreement in favour of VW investors to