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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

European Commission helps shareholder engagement by rejecting the request led by financial intermediaries to delay the implementation of the new Shareholder Rights

Brussels, 4 June 2020 – On 29 April 2020 the heads of European and Member State organisations representing individual shareholders across Europe sent an Open Letter to the European Commission ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

BETTER FINANCE urges to put Employee Share Ownership at the core of efforts to tackle the Corona-induced financial crisis

Brussels, 22 May 2020 - With the current crisis calling for a tightening of the link between employees and their companies, especially in the case of SMEs, BETTER FINANCE’s member ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Public consultation on the review of the MiFID II/MiFIR regulatory framework

Summary: General comment The review of the MiFID II framework is timely and should be coordinated with the other ongoing actions and policy areas, i.e. PRIIPs and the work done ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

The EU Supervisor falls short of advising a complete ban on commissions for “retail” investment advisors

Brussels, 4 May  2020 - On 1 April 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its advice on “inducements” (and on the disclosure of costs and charges) under ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

Open Letter to the European Commission – EU Investors against any postponement of the implementation of the Shareholder Rights

The heads of European and Member State organisations representing individual shareholders across Europe sent an Open Letter to the European Commission opposing lobbying attempts by powerful financial intermediaries to postpone the ...
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/ Public letters, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the new European Guidelines on Funds’ “Performance” Fees

On 3 April the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final guidelines on performance fees in investment funds, applicable to Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE response to ESMA’s Call for Evidence on the Impact of the inducements and costs and charges disclosure requirements under MiFID II

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this timely assessment and evidence gathering on the application of the new MiFID II rules on disclosure for inducements and costs. However, it is very unfortunate that, ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

CORONA PENSIONS? AGE Europe, BETTER FINANCE and CFA Institute call for Measures to protect pension contributions, savings and pay-outs

Brussels, 23 April 2020 - The necessary health, quarantine and social distancing measures taken to fight the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, are taking their toll on economies around the world. This ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE’s feedback to the EC Consultation on the Development of EU Ecolabel criteria for Retail Financial Products

The creation a of well-designed Ecolabel is key to addressing the very real issue of existing national labels being granted to products that do not comply with existing investor protection ...
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/ Position papers & Consultations

Open Letter ECON Committee: ESMA’s and EIOPA’s draft level 2 rules for the Key Information Document (“KID”) of “retail” investment products (“PRIIPs”)

Dear Ms Tingali, Dear Members of the ECON Committee, “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”. (Ezra Solomon, Stanford Professor of Finance) We are writing ...
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/ Public letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress