BETTER FINANCE REPLY TO THE CONSULTATION PAPER ON THE PROPOSAL FOR GUIDELINES UNDER THE INSURANCE DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIVE ON INSURANCE-BASED INVESTMENT PRODUCTS THAT INCORPORATE A STRUCTURE WHICH MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR THE CUSTOMER TO UNDERSTAND THE RISKS INVOLVED
29 March 2017 – As part of its commitment to developing a deeper and fairer Single Market, the European Commission (EC) published an action plan setting out a strategy to strengthen the EU single market for retail financial services. BETTER FINANCE welcomes this initiative and insists that an effective rollout of the EC’s Consumer Financial
BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public consultation on the Capital Markets Union mid-term review 2017 to take stock of progress on the implementation of the CMU Action Plan, re-frame actions in the light of work undertaken so far and evolving market circumstances and complement the CMU Action Plan with new measures which constitute
BETTER FINANCE published the 2016 Edition of the “Pension Savings: The Real Return”. One can supervise only what one can measure: Why is this pension savings performance report (unfortunately) unique? Download the report in English for free here. Should you like to order a physical copy please contacts us at info@betterfinance.eu.
BETTER FINANCE provides its response to the joint consultation launched by ESMA and EBA.
BETTER FINANCE took part in the consultation on the Potential Harmonization of Recovery and and Resolution Frameworks for Insurers launched by EIOPA ( European Insurance and Occupational Pension Authority). With this consultation, EIOPA will develop its view on harmonising recovery and resolution frameworks for insurers and might publish an Opinion addressed to the EU institutions.
A little more than a week ago, BETTER FINANCE announced the results of its replication of the ESMA investigation into Closet Indexing. Following up on this announcement, today BETTER FINANCE launches www.checkyourfund.eu, allowing stakeholders and individual investors to go through the results of the research and, in some cases, find out whether their investments are
ANNEX 1D BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up to 165 equity “UCITS” funds that could potentially be closet indexers. Annex 1.A – List of All Funds (2332 funds) Annex 1.B – List of
Annex 1C BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up to 165 equity “UCITS” funds that could potentially be closet indexers. Annex 1.A – List of All Funds (2332 funds) Annex 1.B – List of
ANNEX 1B BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up to 165 equity “UCITS” funds that could potentially be closet indexers. Annex 1.A – List of All Funds (2332 funds) Annex 1.B – List of