EQUITY FINANCING OF THE EU ECONOMY: HOW TO GET EU CITIZENS AS INVESTORS BACK INTO CAPITAL MARKETS?

On 22 November, BETTER FINANCE, the European Investment Bank and the Federation of European Securities Exchanges teamed up for the International Conference on the ‘Equity Financing of the EU Economy’. A full room was addressed by prominent speakers representing the European Parliament and Commission, Permanent Representations to the EU, European Supervisory Authorities and consumer and trade associations.

Opening keynote speaker Sven Giegold, MEP, highlighted the Swedish public pension scheme (where Swedish citizens invest their pension savings into a very low cost and high return equity fund by default) as a model for fostering retail investments back into equities.

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