The PRIIPs KID and the Need for Disclosure of Past Performance

At the end of 2014 the European Commission adopted a Regulation requiring for a new form of short, standardised consumer‐friendly information (a “Key Information Document” or KID) to be provided ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the ESMA Consultation on PRIIPS

BETTER FINANCE welcomes this Consultation following the previous inquiries of stakeholders by the ESAs which enabled us to previously express our views on the KIDs from the retail investor point ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the ESAs Joint Consultation on PRIIPs

BETTER FINANCE published its response to the ESAs Joint Consultation on in Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to ESMA Consultation on delegated acts required by the UCITS V Directive

UCITS are one of the most important retail investment products for investors. In general, BETTER FINANCE is in favour of reducing risks that are not directly linked to the assets ...
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Legislative steps for the Packaged Retail Investment Products initiative

We strongly support the “horizontal” approach taken by the European Commission for its Packaged Retail Investment Products (PRIPs) initiative, which is the right way to harmonize selling practices of retail ...
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“Packaged” Retail Investment Products (PRIPs)

We strongly support the new “horizontal” approach of the EC, which is the right way to look at the distribution of retail investment products, as most of them are “substitute” ...
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CESR’s technical advice at level 2 on the format and content of Key Information Document disclosures for UCITS

We have worked extensively on the KID project over the last two years, and feel that CESR is now getting close to fulfilling the mandate given by the European Commission ...
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