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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

Articles

Survey: Shareholders’ experience of voting at AGMs across the EU (Shareholders’ Meetings)

[Archived: The Survey is now Closed] It's all about retail shareholder democracy in Europe! Did you try ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Podcast: Are consumers being mis-sold investment funds?

BETTER FINANCE's Managing Director, Guillaume Prache, participated to the last episode (Are consumers being mis-sold investment funds?) of the podcast Fair ...
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Retail Investor Strategy: some inconvenient truths on biased advice

The European Union has two initiatives whose main objectives are to "ensure bias-free advice": the "Capital Markets Union" Action Plan and the EU Strategy for ...
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Despite their major impact on returns, intermediation fees in France are increasingly high and opaque

There are differences between intermediated or "packaged" investments (life insurance, funds, savings plans, etc.) and direct investments in capital markets (ETFs, bonds, shares). Several independent studies indicate ...
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Rapid ageing is the real challenge for the pension systems

The OECD has published a new edition of its research book Pensions at a Glance. The report highlights the pension reforms carried out by OECD countries ...
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Wrapping up the International Investors’ Conference in Bled, Slovenia

Thanks to the stellar lineup of international and Slovenian speakers and panelists, you were numerous in attending the joint BETTER ...
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/ Blog entry, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Financial Education, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

Christiane Hölz from DSW, a German Member of BETTER FINANCE, commented on audit reforms following the Wirecard scandal

The EU Commission has announced to work on an audit reform in the aftermath of the Wirecard scandal. " Wirecard has ...
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EXXON investors engage for the future of our Planet! Sadly unlikely to happen in Europe.

Impact investors (in the end followed by Blackrock and others) just managed to force two new directors into EXXON Board (biggest ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE Position on NPLs

A loan (credit) is “non-performing” when it’s either over 90 days overdue or unlikely to be reimbursed by the client ...
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/ Banking, Blog entry, EuroFinUse, Other

Better Finance aborda el evento #EBCListens sobre el Impacto de las Políticas Monetarias como parte de los Retos Globales.

“Es el sentido de conservación innato de la gente el que ha mantenido nuestro dinero a flote a pesar de ...
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