BETTER FINANCE feedback to the European Commission on the EU Taxonomy Delegated Acts
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the amendments to the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act (Art 8) in providing consistent methodologies and economic performance indicators that ensure financial and non-financial undertakings disclose the relevant ...
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Ferrovial Shareholders Backed by BETTER FINANCE and WFI in Approving Merger and Domicile Shift within the EU
On Thursday 13 April Ferrovial, the Spanish construction group, announced that its shareholders have approved a plan to relocate its holding company to the Netherlands through a reverse merger with ...
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Robo-advice 2022 Report | Breaking Barriers of Traditional Advice
BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo-advice with this seventh annual edition (2022), mapping a sample of platforms that provide online Robo-advisory investing services, by analysing their (automated) advice ...
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BETTER FINANCE Answer to the EC open feedback on the review of the Listing Act
BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission's request for feedback on the review of the Listing Act - making public capital markets more attractive for EU companies and facilitating access ...
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It is time to address the negative impacts of the conflicts of interest generated by sales commissions in the distribution of investment products to European savers
On 2 March 2023, BETTER FINANCE was one of the two organisations representing individual investors and financial users invited by the European Commission (together with 5 financial industry representatives) to ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the ESMA Consultation on Guidelines for the use of ESG or sustainability-related terms in funds’ names
ESMA’s Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms in their names propose the use of quantitative thresholds whereby “if an investment fund has any ESG-, or impact-related words ...
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BETTER FINANCE joins forces in collective redress for individual Airbus investors
BETTER FINANCE, The European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users, joins forces with Stichting Investor Loss Compensation (SILC), assisting Airbus shareholders recover losses resulting from Airbus’ involvement in bribery ...
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BETTER FINANCE calls on EU legislators to stop helping the expansion of large (mostly non-EU) dark traders and to protect retail investors instead
10 February 2023 | As EU policymakers continue their negotiations on the MiFIR review, BETTER FINANCE is increasingly alarmed that the regulation could severely hurt retail investors, by putting in ...
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Great Returns for Great Values: the “Gateway to Responsible Investing” goes LIVE
BETTER FINANCE is excited to announce the launch of its much-needed “Gateway to Responsible Investing”, responding to the lack of independent, transparent and clear information on how to invest in ...
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Hampered by fragmented and costly intermediated processes, less than half of European individual shareholders were able to exercise their voting rights at AGMs in 2022
For a third year in a row, a study by BETTER FINANCE and DSW still points to considerable barriers to shareholder engagement as the Shareholder Rights Directive II fails to ...
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