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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

The Volkswagen DieselGate Scandal

Time for a negotiated settlement for European investors:
  • VW has been dragging its feet over European claims
  • The company has paid out € 30 billion in the US
  • This ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

THE MORE YOU PAY, THE LESS YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET

New research by BETTER FINANCE on the Correlation between Costs and Performance of EU Retail Equity Funds without a doubt establishes a negative correlation between returns and fees Brussels, 20 ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading

STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN COST AND PERFORMANCES IN EU EQUITY RETAIL FUNDS

This research paper is part of BETTER FINANCE’s annual #FundResearch project, an umbrella research activity aimed at providing qualitative and quantitative assessments of the EU market for retail investment funds, ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading

FRENCH SUPERVISOR AMF ANNOUNCES NEW APPROACH TO IDENTIFY FALSELY ACTIVE FUNDS: WILL IT PUT IT TO EFFECTIVE USE?

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the recent publication by the French capital markets supervisor AMF of its "alternative" method to identify potential closet index funds. As pointed out in several studies by ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Reporting & Audit

Presentation of the Key Priorities 2019-2024 & Response from EU Political Parties

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/ Presentations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), CMU Barometer, Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

EU Elections: Are politicians willing to help citizens to improve the long-term value of their savings?

With the European elections around the corner, BETTER FINANCE took stock of the developments over the last five years in matters of financial policy at the European level. Although some ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), CMU Barometer, Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

Bail-in of retail Investors and Depositors should be Measure of Last Resort

BETTER FINANCE supports Commissioner Vestager in her decision to allow targeted compensation by the Italian government for individual investors and savers who were defrauded through the sale of risky financial ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

Fund Managers frequently pocket large portions of the Revenues of Securities lending

Securities lending is the practice of lending a stock, bond or other financial instrument in exchange for interest. Typically, the borrower pays a fee to the lender for the shares ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading

Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques: Attribution of profits derived from Securities Lending by UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds

This research paper is part of BETTER FINANCE’s #FundResearch project, an umbrella research activity aimed at providing qualitative and quantitative assessments of the EU market for “retail” investment funds, focusing ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading

BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Consultation on the Development of EU Ecolabel Criteria for Retail Financial Products

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the setting of mandatory criteria for the Ecolabel. The issue with any point system is that it may reveal gaps in correctly weighting the criteria for awarding ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Sustainabe Finance