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Support a BETTER FINANCE for all!➤ Donate via the Fondation de France ℹ️ Residents from France are eligible for tax deduction receipts. ◆ Make a donation online ➡︎ donate here [Fondation de France ‘TGE’ webpage] ➥ click the 'Belgium/Belgique' drop-down menu, find 'TGE - Better Finance' from the list, and choose your gift amount (one-off

Keynote address by Jella Benner-Heinacher on market structures, “retail” investors, and payments for order flows (PFOF) Thank you for the invitation and congratulations to FESE to organize such an impressive conference in Prague. I would have loved to be personally in this beautiful city of Prague but unfortunately, I can only attend virtually. Nevertheless, I

With the entire world in the grip of an unprecedented pandemic, governments around the world struggle to bring the devastating Coronavirus under control, save lives and alleviate overburdened health systems. Unfortunately, the necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures implemented to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world.

BETTER FINANCE congratulates the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) on its historic collective redress victory in the name of individual fund investors in Europe. On Friday 28 February, the Supreme Court of Norway unanimously upheld the 2019 decision of the Oslo Court of Appeals obliging DNB ASA, Norway’s largest financial services group, to pay back the

Collective Redress Directive – a directive for initiating court actions against companies who infringe consumers rights

Read this notice carefully as it may affect your legal rights This lawsuit alleges that Pretium and Quartermain released documents containing misrepresentations about the Company’s business and operations at its Brucejack Mine. The lawsuit further alleges that when the Company issued statements correcting these misrepresentations on October 9, and 22, 2013, the price of Pretium’s

About our donation systems (Friends of Fund / TGE Network)BETTER FINANCE has been recognised as a public utility organisation by the belgian ‘King Baudouin Foundation’ (FRB/KBS), and is also part of the ‘Transnational Giving Europe’ (TGE) Network. You can make a general gift via: ◆ The “Friends of BETTER FINANCE Fund” (King Baudouin Foundation) [all

Amid intense debates between the regulator, industry and BETTER FINANCE over the proposal for the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP), a retirement savings investment product that stand to benefit not only European citizens as savers, but the entire E.U. economy, a story regarding the mobility of occupational pension plans stands out. A piece published by the

In 2013, the Financial Conduct Authority (the City’s Financial Watchdog) adopted a reform relating to  fees charged to investors for fund management and financial advice. It decided to ban the “bundling of charges” and to stop fund groups from paying commission to advisers. The idea behind this reform is that since fund managers are no

Transparency Task Force will hold a webinar about financial reporting, covering themes such as “Get real about financial reporting” and “The Financialisaton of Financial Reporting”. Stakeholders and experts will talk about “smoke and mirrors” and “conjuring tricks” and “insurance companies trading insolvent” and “Solvency 2 reforms”, amongst others. Addressing the inadequacies of financial reporting, the

Available data and evidence show significant increases in the trading and investing activity of EU households, sparked by a new wave of young, previously inactive, non-professional investors. Many EU retail investors increased their exposure to listed equities and started to invest via execution-only services (brokerage accounts). Besides flattening the illiquidity curve during the period of

Available data and evidence show significant increases in the trading and investing activity of EU households, sparked by a new wave of young, previously inactive, non-professional investors. Many EU retail investors increased their exposure to listed equities and started to invest via execution-only services (brokerage accounts). Besides flattening the illiquidity curve during the period of

On 3 June 2021 BETTER FINANCE wrote to Commissioner McGuinnes on behalf of the EU citizens who act or could act as individual non-professional (called “retail” in MiFID) investors with regard to the European Commission’s projects on consolidated tape (“CT”) and the impact assessment to be finalized soon. BETTER FINANCE appreciates the firm stand by

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Jella Benner-Heinacher, the Deputy Chief Director of the Deutsche Schutzvereinigung für Wertpapierbesitz (DSW) and BETTER FINANCE Vice-President, was appointed to the Board of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) as an observer with speaking rights to be the only representative of EU citizens as “retail” investors. EFRAG

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the update of the non-binding guidelines on non-financial reporting as a crucial step toward achieving the Paris agreement and the Sustainable Development goals by reorienting capital flows to support a long-term sustainable and just economy. However, it also expresses some doubts about the effectiveness of these requirements due to their not binding nature

As we’ve emphasized in the past, BETTER FINANCE believes that the concept of sustainable finance should translate into products that are exemplary in complying with EU investor protection rules (especially in terms of transparency on performance). BETTER FINANCE is pleased to see that an emerging trend in socially-responsible investors wanting to make sound financial decisions

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is seeking two candidates to represent the interests of consumers, as members of its Securities Markets Stakeholders Group (SMSG). The SMSG helps to facilitate consultation between ESMA, its Board of Supervisors and stakeholders on ESMA’s areas of responsibility and provides technical advice on its policy development. This helps to

As Chairman of the Management Board of the public interest Foundation Stichting Volkswagen Investors Claim I have sent an open letter to Ms. Brigitte Zypries, Minister for Economics and Energy. Stichting Volkswagen Investors Claim strives for a rapid solution that is at the same time fair to the victims, and does not substantially prejudice the

U.S. developments Over the last months, it has been reported that Volkswagen reached a 15 billion dollar settlement with the authorities, the consumers and the car dealers in the United States. Contrary to these developments, Volkswagen has raised a motion to dismiss the ADR investor case. The judge will hear this motion during a trial

Map Address Rue d’Arenberg 44 1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 25 14 37 77 President Jella Benner-Heinacher jella.bennerheinacher[at]dsw-info.de Acting Managing Director Aleksandra Mączyńska maczynska@betterfinance.eu

In 2014, BETTER FINANCE, had asked ESMA to carry out an EU-wide investigation on closet indexing. At the beginning of February 2016, ESMA eventually released results of its investigation but failed to disclose those funds that were uncovered by its investigation as potentially falsely active.  BETTER FINANCE therefore decided to replicate the research by ESMA

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