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Our Research & Policy Aim

As a public interest organisation, BETTER FINANCE is committed to advancing the interests of individual investors and users of financial services throughout the European Union.

Our Goal

Our goal is to promote transparency, long-term value, and consumer protection in financial markets, ensuring that retail investors have a strong voice in policy discussions.

Our Approach

Working collaboratively with our member organisations, BETTER FINANCE undertakes rigorous analysis and research, engages in stakeholder consultations, and solicits expert contributions, resulting in well-informed, data-driven policy recommendations.

This approach ensures that EU financial regulations align with the interests of European citizens.

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Invest for Better Climate EU: Assessing Retail Investor Sustainability Knowledge and Preferences in France

Invest for Better Climate is an educational and advocacy campaign, aimed at giving individual retail investors a better understanding of the impact on climate they have through their investments. It ...
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/ Position Papers, Invest for Better Climate, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE supports the FSUG statement on Value for Money in Retail Investments

BETTER FINANCE endorses the FSUG's call for improved 'Value for Money' in retail investments. The focus is on enhancing the effectiveness of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) to ...
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/ Position Papers, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Sustainabe Finance

FSUG Opinion on Value for Money in Retail Investments

The Financial Services User Group (FSUG) welcomes the ongoing legislative and supervisory works aiming to improve the ‘Value for Money’ that retail investors obtain from their packaged retail and insurance-based ...
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/ Position Papers, Life Insurance & Pensions, Product governance & disclosures, Retail Investment Strategy, Supervision & Redress

Individual Investors’ National Key Priorities 2024 – 2029

Let’s harness the Capital Markets Union’s (CMU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, retail investors and pension savers, as well as our planet, economy, and future generations. This ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Financial Reporting & Audit, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

Individual Investors’ Key Priorities for 2024-2029 | Sustainable Savings & Investments Union: Reconciling Individuals, Enterprises & Planet

⬇️ Read or download BETTER FINANCE's Individual Investors’ Key Priorities for 2024-2029 below. ⬇️ Let’s harness the Savings and Investments Union’s (SIU) potential to benefit our citizens as financial consumers, ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Other, Packaged Investment Products, Product governance & disclosures, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE supports the FSUG statement on key topics during COP28

BETTER FINANCE supports FSUG's COP28 statement, calling on the European Commission to ensure the green transition burden isn't solely on citizens and communities. ⬇️ Read the full statement below ⬇️ ...
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/ Position Papers, BETTER FINANCE, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE position on the Retail Investment Strategy

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the proposal for the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) put forward by the European Commission (EC) on 24 May 2023. We fully share the goals that the EC ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets Union (CMU), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Product governance & disclosures

BETTER FINANCE position on the transparency of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities

The draft Regulation on ESG ratings proposed by the European Commission in June 2023 aims to establish a framework and tackle structural issues by combating possible conflicts of interests, imposing ...
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/ Position Papers, Sustainabe Finance

BETTER FINANCE Position on the Listing Act Review – EC Package Proposal

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the objectives of the Listing Act review put forward by the European commission to make EU Capital Markets more attractive for companies, particularly for SMEs.[1] Investor associations ...
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/ Position Papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Securities Markets & Trading

Sustainability recommendations from NGOs for the PRIIPs revision

The Briefing Paper by BETTER FINANCE, 2° Investing Initiative and WWF focuses on the Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products (PRIIPs) Regulation and provides recommendations for sustainability disclosure. While a ...
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/ Position Papers, Sustainabe Finance

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