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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.

Communication

FT: Time to destigmatise khaki finance

| Original article from the FT, by Huw van Steenis, co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s finance council. | The ...
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/ EuroInvestors, News, Sustainabe Finance

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

It's all about retail shareholder democracy in Europe! Did you try to vote (or did you successfully vote) at ...
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/ Blog entry, EuroInvestors, EuroShareHolders, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Financial Times: Digital platforms fuel European ETF growth spurt

For years, European investors have paid higher fees and have found it more difficult to access low-cost, passively managed products ...
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/ News

F2iC Press Release | If the shareholder is truly the owner of the company, then his vote should be binding.

On 14 April F2iC - one of BETTER FINANCE's French member organisations - issued a press release arguing that the ...
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/ EuroShareHolders, News, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

VZMD Rejects Continued and Damaging Regulatory Pressures on its Association and ‘Share SUPPORT’ programme

This new statement follows on an earlier case where VZMD, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association, opposed pressure on its 'Share SUPPORT' ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroShareHolders, News, Supervision & Redress

ESMA study confirms that actively managed funds underperform benchmarks, also in times of market stress

As stated by ESMA “the COVID-19 crisis offers the opportunity to test the hypothesis [often claimed by the industry] that ...
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/ Capital Markets (equity & bonds), EuroFinUse, EuroInvestors, Life Insurance & Pensions, News, Packaged Investment Products

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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/ Blog entry

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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/ Blog entry

How is technology changing financial institutions?

Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital transformation due to the need to conduct more business remotely through digital channels ...
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/ News

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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