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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

Barriers to Shareholder Engagement 2.0 | SRD II Implementation Study

The general meeting is the cornerstone of shareholder democracy. It is not only where voting on major company decisions takes place, but also the only place where private shareholders can ...
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/ Research papers, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Shareholder Rights Directive II fails to deliver for European cross-border shareholders

To ensure sustainable development and a brighter future, shareholder engagement must be given a chance! Despite the entry into force of the Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) in September ...
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/ Press Releases, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to ESMA’s Call for Evidence on Retail Investor Protection Topics

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this call for evidence from ESMA on retail investor protection topics but regrets that it is confined to securities markets (MiFID II) topics only as these financial ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Supervision & Redress

Robo-advice: Automated? Yes. Intelligent? Not so much.

Extreme divergences between platforms and investor profiles in terms of asset allocation and expected returns reveal significant deficiencies in the suitability of the algorithms’ investment recommendations. From virtual meetings and ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Robo-advice, Securities Markets & Trading, Sustainabe Finance

Are Robo-advisors sufficiently intelligent to provide suitable advice to individual investors?

BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo advice with this sixth annual edition, mapping start-up platforms that provide Robo-advisory and investing services, and analysing their user-friendliness, transparency, costs, portfolio ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Robo-advice, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE’s response to the ESA’s Call for Evidence on the PRIIPs Regulation

The EU offers pre-contractual information to non-professional investors before purchasing its investment products. Since 2018, the same Key Information Document (KID) has been used for these Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Products (PRIIPs). The European Commission asked ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations

The Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion and Financial Inclusion Europe join BETTER FINANCE

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of two new associate member organisations. The Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion (Pörssisäätiö), based in Helsinki, and Financial Inclusion Europe (FiInE), based ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

For a Consolidated Tape of Capital Market Trades that Brings Value to Individual Investors

Available data and evidence show significant increases in the trading and investing activity of EU households, sparked by a new wave of young, previously inactive, non-professional investors. Many EU retail ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Securities Markets & Trading

Solvency Reports (SFCR) 2020 under examination Disruption of European Insurers in times of Financial Repression

In June 2021, the German Association of Insured (BdV), together with the analyst Carsten Zielke and the European consumer organisation BETTER FINANCE, presented the results of their analysis of the ...
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/ Research papers, Financial Reporting & Audit, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products

The Real Return 2021 – Country by Country

/ Research papers, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Pensions Report - The Real Return