Annex to the Report “Robo-Investing: Cyborgs vs Robots – Competing to Attract European Citizens’ Money”: Comparison Table of Robo-Investors in the USA
BETTER FINANCE supports Azione MPS’s position in BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA rescue plan.
A year and a half after ESMA asked CSSF (the Luxembourg supervisor) to investigate the potential cases of closet indexing (falsely active funds) it identified in Luxembourg. Many months after its colleagues from other important fund domiciles such as the UK, France and Germany had completed – and reported – on their own investigations, CSSF
On 28 July 2017, the European financial regulators (ESAs) released their technical advice on the contents of the Key Information Document (KID) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) with environmental and social objectives (EOS PRIIPS). Surprisingly the Governance component of the “ESG” (Environmental, Social and Governance) investment approach is excluded. The ESAs confirm
BETTER FINANCE supports the idea of moving trading from OTC markets to regulated trading venues, and of the differentiation between bilateral and multilateral trading activities in order to protect the price formation process on transparent regulated venues and be able to have a real level playing field.
BETTER FINANCE has the pleasure to announce that Aleksandra Maczynska has just joined its Brussels team as number two.
EU citizens as savers are by nature mostly long-term driven since 67% of their total assets are deployed in long-term investments1 (versus only 37% for pension funds – despite their purely long-term horizon – and 11% for insurers) and their main saving goals are long-term: retirement, housing, children’s studies, transmission of wealth, etc. For these
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the Interim Report of the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance of the European Union, which highlights the need to “incorporate long-term and sustainable value creation”. BETTER FINANCE underlines the need to establish common definitions and standards at least at the EU level. Long-term and pension savers must be recognised as major
In February 2017 the European Commission (EC) launched a call for candidates to renew its Financial Services User Group (FSUG). The new composition of the 20-strong expert group was announced today and BETTER FINANCE (the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users) is proud to announce that – together with its member organisations –