In principle, European individual Investors welcome the introduction of the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). However, given BETTER FINANCE’s priority to ensure the protection of individual European savers and investors, we are concerned about the shrinking share of regulated securities markets in the EU, now down to around 50 % of transactions,
BETTER FINANCE published the 2017 Edition of “Pension Savings: The Real Return”. Download the report in English for free here. Should you like to order a physical copy please contacts us at info@betterfinance.eu.
With a global pensions gap estimated at $ 70 trillion and forecasted to jump to $ 400 trillion by 2050, a simple, cost effective, performing and open pan-European personal pension is an absolute must. Therefore, BETTER FINANCE (BF), the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, welcomes this initiative and the opportunity to comment
BETTER FINANCE answered this consultation by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance on what the most important issues are that need to be addressed to move towards sustainable finance.
20 September 2017 – The European Commission (EC) announced its proposal to improve the supervision of European financial services as well as its revision of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) today. BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal to have permanent members on the Boards of Supervisors of the ESAS as an improvement to their governance. However,
BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Christiane Hölz will represent BETTER FINANCE and DSW, BETTER FINANCE’s German member organisation, at the Commission Expert Group on Technical Aspects of Corporate Governance Processes.
BETTER FINANCE would like to draw attention to a recent study of one of our member organisation, i.e. Bund der Versicherten (BdV), carried out in cooperation with Zielke Research on the current situation of German life insurers (please see the relevant links below). The study is based on the so-called Solvency and Financial Conditions Reports
Retail” financial services are still ranked as the worst consumer markets in the entire European Union according to the European Commission’s Consumer Scoreboard. Therefore, our organization would like to express its support for initiatives such as the draft Delegated Act since it aims to enhance the protection of consumers and retail investors. We also subscribe
Our organization fully defends that this draft Delegated Act would be the cornerstone to establish the main obligations for insurance manufacturers and insurance distributors regarding the product approval process, the target markets, the product testing, the monitoring and review, and the information obligations between manufacturers and distributors. These innovations are fundamental to ensure improvements in
Annex to the Report “Robo-Investing: Cyborgs vs Robots – Competing to Attract European Citizens’ Money”: Comparison Table of Robo-Investors in Europe