EuroFinUse and IVA invite you to the debate with high-level speakers on the«Financial Repression of Savers and Investors». Edin Mujagic, David Croughan, Olivier Gajda, Benjamin Josar, Carlos Maravall, Joachim von Cornberg, Gabriele Zgubic-Engleder and Helmut Ettl will give us their perspective in Vienna on October 18. Join us at the Vienna Insurance Group from 9am
EuroFinUse was present at the ALFI Global Distribution Conference on 12 & 13 September 2013 in Luxembourg. Guillaume Prache, EuroFinUse’s Managing Director, attended the Conference as a panelist and took part in the panel “Regaining the trust of investors: implications for the asset management industry”. Read the Conference highlights here and see the Conference
The European Federation of Financial Services Users calls on the Members of the European Parliament to put an end to performance fees of investment funds being only a one-way street, benefitting only providers and to the detriment of retail investors. It is fine to link fund managers’ commissions to performance, but to be fair with
EuroFinUse published its Position Paper on the European Commission Action Plan on Company Law and Corporate Governance. In an effort to complement and improve the proposal we focus on those points which in our opinion have not been addressed: – The lack of response to the problems of cross-border shareholder voting; – The establishment of
The Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group of ESMA has published its Advice on the Regulation of Benchmarks and Indices, which addresses the following key issues for individual investors and financial services users: The access to indices’ and benchmarks’ past performance should be made easily and freely available to individual investors and borrowers; An independent committee
On 15 January 2013 the European Parliament debated a legislative proposal to strengthen accountability among Credit Rating Agencies. The proposed model consists of greater transparency by ensuring more competition and calling for stricter rules on civil liability and conflict of interests. PES President Sergei Stanishev underlined that; “this legislative proposal sends a strong political statement:
"At stake is not just the future of France, but that of the euro. Mr Hollande has correctly badgered Angela Merkel for pushing austerity too hard. But he has hidden behind his napkin when it comes to the political integration needed to solve the euro crisis. There has to be greater European-level control over national
20 October 2017 – For years now, different research studies and reports by BETTER FINANCE have far too often come to the same conclusion: EU citizens as savers and investors are left in the dark with respect to the past performance and costs of the financial products they invest in, meaning that, more often than
EUROPEAN SAVERS AND INVESTORS WELCOME THE OFFER FROM «PENSIONS EUROPE» TO HELP BETTER FINANCE IN ITS RESEARCH EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY ON THE RETURNS OF PENSION SAVINGS 4 May 2017 – Following the publication by "Pension Europe" (“Pensions Europe opinion on the research on the quality and outcome of pension savings – Comparing apples and
The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) of the European Parliament (EP) voted on the text of an own-initiative report evaluating the International Accounting Standards (IAS) and highlighting some of the shortcomings in the standard-setting activities of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). The report