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Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): Impacts on Transparency, Information Disclosure, Investor Protection and Supervision

The objective of this project is to understand the perceived experience of market participants with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), including investment professionals as well as the recipients of financial ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

BETTER FINANCE EVIDENCE PAPER ON THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF “INDUCEMENTS”

BETTER FINANCE screened available evidence (literature, surveys, experiments, and statistical data) comparing the impact of allowing the receipt of “inducements” by distributors or brokers of “retail” investment services and products, ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Packaged Investment Products

Barriers to Shareholder Engagement 2.0 | SRD II Implementation Study (2021)

— An updated version of this study (AGM Season 2022) can be found here — The general meeting is the cornerstone of shareholder democracy. It is not only where voting ...
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/ Research papers, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Are Robo-advisors sufficiently intelligent to provide suitable advice to individual investors?

BETTER FINANCE continued its research series into Robo advice with this sixth annual edition, mapping start-up platforms that provide Robo-advisory and investing services, and analysing their user-friendliness, transparency, costs, portfolio ...
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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Education, FinTech, Sustainabe Finance

Evidence Paper on Banning Inducements

BETTER FINANCE presents its Evidence Paper on Banning Inducements in retail investment services. BETTER FINANCE screened available evidence (literature, surveys, experiments, and data) on the effects of allowing vs banning ...
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/ Research papers, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products

Solvency Reports (SFCR) 2020 under examination Disruption of European Insurers in times of Financial Repression

In June 2021, the German Association of Insured (BdV), together with the analyst Carsten Zielke and the European consumer organisation BETTER FINANCE, presented the results of their analysis of the ...
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/ Research papers, Financial Reporting & Audit, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products

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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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

The Real Return 2021 – Country by Country

/ Research papers, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Pensions Report - The Real Return

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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/ Research papers, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Pensions Report - The Real Return, Supervision & Redress

The body-mass-index of the life-insurance industry – A close look at the SFCRs

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/ Research papers, Life Insurance & Pensions