Pan-Slovenian Shareholders Association opposes pressure against minority shareholders and its “Share SUPPORT” program
BETTER FINANCE Member VZMD makes Objections Public in OPEN LETTER to the CEO of the Slovenian Securities Market Agency (ATVP), the national competent Authority In a press release at the ...
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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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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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MiFID2 and PRIIPs Implementation Study: Are the new rules serving their purpose?
More than a year after the entry into force of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and of the Regulation on Key Information Document for Packaged Retail ...
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How to Get Value for Your Money when Charges and Inflation seriously Erode Pension Savings Across Europe?
For the ninth year in a row, BETTER FINANCE embarked on the herculean task of gathering all the data on long-term and pension savings in 17 EU Member States and ...
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Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings report | 2021 Edition
BETTER FINANCE published the ninth edition of its “Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings report | 2021 Edition”. Download the report in English for free here. Should you like ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Consultation on Distance Marketing of Consumer Financial Services
In the 2017 EC Consumer Finance Action Plan, the Commission undertook to monitor the distance selling market of retail financial services in order to identify the potential consumer risks and ...
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Expropriation of Investors in Slovenian Banks ruled a Violation of Property Rights by European Court of Human Rights
BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins its Slovenian Member, the Pan-Slovenian Shareholders' Association (VZMD), in welcoming the recent ruling by the European Court of ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors
BETTER FINANCE welcomes this consultation from the EC on a much-awaited and needed strategy for retail investors, and fully supports its clearly stated objectives, as defined in the EC CMU ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on the EU Strategy for Retail Investors – Annex 1
In our view, the Strategy for Retail Investors (the topic of this consultation) and the Capital Markets Union project are strongly interlinked as both share the aim to promote more ...
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