Get Involved

 +32 25 14 37 77

 info@betterfinance.eu


image

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.

Communication

ESMA sets out its strategy on sustainable finance

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, published its Strategy on Sustainable Finance. The strategy ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, News, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

Project Syndicate: The EU’s Risky Green Taxonomy

[...] The European Commission's so-called “taxonomy” for classifying green investments should address three important questions. Unfortunately, the Commission's one-dimensional approach ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, News, Sustainabe Finance

Bloomberg: BlackRock Puts Climate at Center of $7 Trillion Strategy

BlackRock Inc. will ditch investments with high sustainability-related risk as climate concerns drive a sweeping change in the way the ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, News, Sustainabe Finance

Responsible Investor: Proposed EU Ecolabel to allow up to 80% of fund assets to go into non-green equities

The EU’s nascent sustainable funds label has been amended after being described as ‘too ambitious and not achievable’ [...] The ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, Press Coverage, Sustainabe Finance

Citywire: Nordic regulators to crack down on greenwashing

The Danish financial regulator, the FSA, and its Norwegian counterpart Finanstilsynet, stated that the increasing supply of investment products marketed ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, News, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

EU citizens for Sustainable Value for Money

Closing Speech by Guillaume Prache at the Sustainable Value for Money Conference on 20 November 2019 -- Download the PDF ...
Read More
/ Blog entry, EuroInvestors, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

J.P. Morgan Chase to launch a robo-adviser with free ETFs

J.P. Morgan Chase is launching a digital investing service called “You Invest Portfolios”. For an annual fee of 0.35% of ...
Read More
/ Banking, EuroInvestors, FinTech, News, Robo-advice

FCA fines Henderson £1.9m for Closet Indexing

Already back in 2014 BETTER FINANCE denounced the practice of closet indexing. It launched a campaign against those funds that ...
Read More
/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

FT Adviser: Investors pull £63bn from active funds following Mifid II

Investors have pulled an average of £3.5bn a month from active funds since Mifid II rules highlighted the extra cost ...
Read More
/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroInvestors, News, Securities Markets & Trading

EU ‘urgently’ needs common ESG rules, says French watchdog

France’s top financial regulator has urged Europe to move faster on setting common standards for environmental, social and governance investing ...
Read More
/ EuroInvestors, Financial Reporting & Audit, News, Sustainabe Finance