Algarvedailynews.com echoes the conclusions drawn in BETTER FINANCE’s "Pension Savings: The Real Return" in which British pensions are shown among the worst in all of the European Union countries. The article stressed that high charges and inflation are to blame for the poor performance. The result: pensions in Britain have not grown as fast as the cost of living.
Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, was quoted in the Financial Times following his contribution to EFAMA’s report “Building Blocks for Industry Driven Investor Education Initiatives”. Presenting the investors’ perspective on "The fall of financial literacy", Prache suggested that plans to improve financial literacy should include resinstating basic financial mathematics in European curriculums, as
Today’s Financial Times story is based on the recent EuroFinUse’s Response to the Public Consultation on the review of the European System of Financial Supervision from the European Commission. The FT echoes EuroFinUse’s views on the need for a more balanced representation of retail users in the European consultative “Stakeholder Groups”, and the need for
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
In this week’s editor’s letter for MoneyWeek Merryn Somerset Webb issued a call to arms, asking fund managers to save the shareholder capitalism that served us all so well in the 1980s and early 1990s, by using their power as owners to force big companies to behave better. According to Merryn, “it seems clear to
As the end of the year approaches, finance directors are looking into ways of sprucing up the year’s results. The newest way involves the crafty use of securities lending. This practice, which increased by 15 per cent this year, sees financial institutions swapping different securities with one another. Since policymakers have created a new supply-demand