BETTER FINANCE wishes to stress that providing EU citizens with a really safe PEPP is critical for their future pension adequacy. However, despite BETTER FINANCE’s repeated warnings and meetings with representatives of the EU citizens at the Parliament, the ECON committee today decided to adopt a capital “protection” scam for the “basic PEPP” which is
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Commission’s proposal on low carbon benchmarks and positive carbon impact benchmarks released as part of the Sustainable Finance Action Plan of the European Commission. EU citizens as savers and individual investors are the main provider of long term funding to the EU economy and are mostly
Investment firms shall act in accordance with the best interest of their clients. As such, when providing investment advice and portfolio management, they must disclose information on the ESG of each financial product offered to the client before providing investment services. The asset managers must explain to the client how his or her ESG preferences
Investment firms shall act in accordance with the best interest of their clients and as such, when providing investment advice and portfolio management, they must disclose information on the ESG of each financial product offered to the client before providing investment services. The asset managers must explain to the client how his or her ESG
With the ECON committee voting on the PEPP Regulation around the corner, BETTER FINANCE warns one last time that true capital protection implies that the notion of “capital” must be calculated on the basis of the amounts saved before the deduction of all accumulated fees, charges and expenses directly or indirectly borne by investors, and
This proposal aims at integrating ESG considerations into the investment and advisory process to ensure that financial market participants (UCITS, AIFMs, IORPs, EuVECA and EuSEF managers and investment firms) that receive a mandate from their clients or beneficiaries to take investment decisions on their behalf would integrate ESG into their internal processes and inform their
EU citizens as savers and individual investors are the main provider of long term funding to the EU economy and are mostly by nature long term oriented, as their needs are often long-term ones: pension, home purchase, children education, etc. Therefore, they are concerned with the impact of the investment of their savings on sustainability.
The EBA seeks to foster consumer protection in all EU Member States, by identifying and addressing consumer detriment in the financial services sector. By assessing the retail conduct of financial firms, the EBA also seeks to contribute to the stability, integrity and effectiveness of the financial system. One of the tasks of the EBA is
BETTER FINANCE commented on the current legislative framework on public reporting of companies. As a representative of individual investors and financial services users in Europe, BETTER FINANCE focused its feedback on the financial reporting framework for listed companies and for banks and insurance companies.