With fewer individual investors investing directly in equities and bonds and households being sold packaged products instead, the products EU citizens invest in are becoming increasingly complex. As a result people struggle to understand and to trust the financial products they are invested in. Whereas new technologies and FinTech are, in principle, cutting out the
The main purpose of the Research is to analyse whether the characteristics of the life cycle de-risking strategies are homogenous enough insofar that the default investment option will not need further calibration (regulatory provisions) with regard to its design. The other focus of the Research is to see how transparent and understandable these risk mitigation
For the third year in a row BETTER FINANCE took a closer look at the emerging Robo Advisory business from the perspective of individual investors and savers. Considering that new players are continuously joining the fray, this report focuses solely on selected platforms that set up shop over the last ten years in Europe and
Back in November 2017, BETTER FINANCE formed an Alliance together with the other major EU public interest organisations working on financial services to voice their disappointment with the European Commission’s proposal for the review of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), and make proposals to remedy the situation.
BETTER FINANCE fully supports this proposal to include ESG considerations during the advisory and product suitability process. However, we have some concerns regarding the proposal. Firstly, and as raised at several occasions by BETTER FINANCE, before requesting institutional investors and assets managers to include ESG’s client’s preferences in the advisory and product suitability process, we
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this opportunity to comment on the proposal amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 supplementing MiFID II as regards organizational requirements and operating conditions for investment firms and defined terms for the purpose of that directive. Investment firms shall act in accordance with the best interest of their clients. As such, when providing investment
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this proposal to extend the Regulation on cross-border transactions to non-euro Member States for cross-border transactions in Euros sent or received within the EU. Transactions in Euros from or to a Member State of the European Union will now be charged the exact same price as a domestic transaction in the official
Renewed research by BETTER FINANCE finds that at least 30% of the main actively managed UCITS equity funds (those with a ‘fund benchmark’) still do not comply with key disclosure requirements for benchmarks as stipulated in EU Rules. In the face of persistent poor enforcement in our view in some major fund domiciles, BETTER FINANCE
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s roadmap on a “Simplified prospectus for companies and investors in Europe”. As representative of individual investors and savers, we believe that the main concern is to ensure that the Prospectus, the EU Growth Prospectus and their respective Summary prospectuses must reflect a true picture
Renewed research by BETTER FINANCE finds that at least 30% of the main actively managed UCITS equity funds (those with a ‘fund benchmark’ ) still do not comply with key disclosure requirements for benchmarks as stipulated in EU Rules. In the face of persistent poor enforcement in our view in some major fund domiciles, BETTER