Dear Visitor, Please note that this new version of the 2015 BETTER FINANCE Pensions Report corrects a few specific mistakes contained in the previous version. Please discard any previous version. We apologise for the inconvenience. Please download the latest updated version here.
BETTER FINANCE published its response to the ESAs Joint Consultation on in Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs).
BETTER FINANCE submitted comments on the identification and calibration of infrastructure investment risk categories to EIOPA.
The new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive is to be voted tomorrow 8 July. As it stands the proposal grossly ignores all the modest amendments called for by European individual shareholder representatives. We are now looking at a Capital Markets Union without a single market for EU-wide shareholder engagement. Our press release is available here.
BETTER FINANCE sent a letter to Commissioner Hill expressing its concerns on the upcoming Capital Markets Union Action Plan and the involvement of retail investors in this initiative. The letter is available here.
BETTER FINANCE published its response to ESMA Consultation on Draft guidelines on complex debt instruments and structured deposits.
BETTER FINANCE’s press release on the plenary vote of the new EU Shareholders Rights’ Directive, as amended by the Parliament’s JURI committee, on June 10 is available here.
BETTER FINANCE believes that the CMU is about attracting household savings to put them to work for the long term financing of the European economy. Therefore, we invited several high-level speakers to share their views and discuss the concept of this initiative at our international conference on the 6th of May. Read all about it
BETTER FINANCE published its response to the European Commission Consultation on “Building a Capital Markets Union”.
BETTER FINANCE published its response to the European Commission Consultation on the review of the Prospectus Directive.