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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

Pension Savings: The Real Return – 2019 Edition

Download the report in English for free here. Should you like to order a physical copy please contacts us at info@betterfinance.eu. ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Pensions Report - The Real Return

Pensions Inadequacy: the High Fees often charged by European Pension Providers prevent many EU Citizens from enjoying a Decent Retirement

For the seventh year in a row, BETTER FINANCE embarked on the herculean task of gathering all the data on private pensions in 17 EU Member States and published its ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Pensions Report - The Real Return

BETTER FINANCE Position Paper on Calculation and Presentation of Costs and Performance Scenarios in the PRIIPs KID

BETTER FINANCE has always strongly supported the aim of the PRIIPs Regulation: to tell potential investors what they need to know in a short, comprehensible format which they can easily ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products

BETTER FINANCE NOW CONTRIBUTES A TOTAL OF 28 USER-SIDE EXPERTS TO THE EU AUTHORITIES’ EXPERT AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Edoardo Carlucci, Research and Policy Officer at BETTER FINANCE - the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users - was appointed as ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Redress Interests of Consumers

BETTER FINANCE has long advocated for an EU-wide collective redress mechanism for all financial services users, including small and individual shareholders or employee shareholders, and provided support to consumer organisations ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE – Annual Report 2018

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/ Annual Reports, Other

Feedback on the draft technical advice on minimum requirements for the EU climatetransition benchmarks and the EU Parisaligned benchmarks and benchmarks’ ESG disclosures

On 18 June 2019, the Technical Expert Group (TEG) published its report on Climate Benchmarks and Benchmarks’ ESG Disclosures. The report recommends a list of minimum standards for the methodologies of EU Climate ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE response to the survey on collection of evidence on undue short-term pressure from the financial sector on corporations

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a questionnaire which aims to gather evidence on potential short-term pressures on corporations stemming from the financial sector. On December 2019, the findings ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

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

Collective Redress Booklet 2019

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/ Research papers, Supervision & Redress