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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

Publications

BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on the Intra-EU Investment Facilitation Initiative

With the termination of the intra-EU bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in 2020 – which received significant criticism for overlapping with the EU single market rules – the EC launched an ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

In Memory of Wilhelm Rasinger – the Champion of Austrian Individual Shareholders

It is with great sadness that BETTER FINANCE learned on Monday 14 December 2020 that Wilhelm Rasinger, President of the Austrian Association for Investors (Interessenverbandes für Anleger – IVA) passed ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

Ensure a Level Playing Field for ELTIFs to Take Off

With merely 22 active funds, of which just a handful are marketed and distributed to individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors, the EU Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) market is still struggling to ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Securities Markets & Trading, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE ELTIF Research & Policy Report

This study is part of the BETTER FINANCE #FundResearch project, a research activity aimed at providing qualitative and quantitative assessments of the EU market for “retail” investment funds, focusing on ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Packaged Investment Products

The 2020 shareholder meetings harmed shareholder rights and often severely

The annual general meeting (AGM) is the cornerstone of shareholder democracy and an essential part of sound corporate governance. Not only are AGMs the place where shareholders get to vote ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

The Future of General Shareholder Meetings: a BETTER FINANCE – DSW Study on the 2020 Virtual Shareholder Meetings in the EU

The annual general meeting of shareholders (AGM) is the cornerstone for sound corporate governance. It is through the shareholders' vote at the AGM that board members' actions get legitimacy and ...
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/ Research papers, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Greek individual investors join BETTER FINANCE via HELINAS

4 December 2020 – BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of a new member organisation in Greece. HELINAS, the Hellenic Investors Association, is a Non-Governmental Organisation established in ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

BETTER FINANCE corrects PensionsEurope’s mudslinging allegations on Bulgarian pension returns

On 25 September 2020, BETTER FINANCE released the eighth edition of its research report on the Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings. More than a month later, on 5 ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Pensions Report - The Real Return, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE Position on the EC Proposal for an EU Recovery Prospectus

The BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal put forward by the European Commission to simplify Prospectus disclosure rules for equity issuers in order to stimulate equity financing by companies in need ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Reporting & Audit, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Public Letter to the European Parliament’s ECON Committee: Harm Done to EU citizens as “Retail” Investors Through MiFID II “Quick Fixes”

We welcome the EC’s initiative to alleviate some regulatory requirements enabling EU capital markets’ potential to boost recovery from the COVID-19 induced economic downturn. However, we wish to warn about ...
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/ Public letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)