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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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Joint EFAMA – BETTER FINANCE letter on the implementing rules for the PRIIPs KID

BETTER FINANCE and EFAMA have always been strong supporters of the “PRIIPs” Key Information Document (“KID”), seeing it as a powerful instrument for retail investors to enable sound investment choices ...
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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products

Open letter in response to the EC letter on Romanian financial legislation

A letter by the European Commission to the Romanian Minister of Public Finance, Ms Anca Dragu, was very critical of the adoption of the "datio in solutum" law aimed at ...
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/ Public Letters, Other

Letter to the EC and Government of Slovenia regarding the bail-in of subordinated bondholders

In December 2013 the subordinated bondholders in five Slovenian banks (NLB, NKBM, Abanka, Probanka and Factor Banka) were bailed-in to refinance these struggling institutions. Subordinated bonds in a sixth bank ...
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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

Letter to DG FISMA regarding closet indexing disclosure

In 2014, the Danish financial supervisor revealed it had found that almost a third of Danish equity funds were in effect expensive clones of the indices, or « closet indexers ...
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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

FSUG Letter to the EC on the elimination of past performance in the contents of the Key Information Document

The FSUG is of the view that eliminating standardised, easily comparable data on past performance will be a regressive step for investors and will reverse some of the partial progress ...
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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Uncategorised

BETTER FINANCE letter to MEP Brian Hayes: Key and comparable information to EU pension savers eliminated from IORP II

BETTER FINANCE wrote a letter to MEP Brian Hayes regarding the ECON vote on IORP II. The letter expresses BETTER FINANCE’s concern regarding the proposed Amendments in the ECON draft ...
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/ Public Letters, Life Insurance & Pensions

ESMA SMSG letter to Commissioner Hill regarding past performance in KID for PRIIPs

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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products

Savers and individual investors should be at the heart of the upcoming CMU Action Plan

BETTER FINANCE sent a letter to Commissioner Hill expressing its concerns on the upcoming Capital Markets Union Action Plan and the involvement of retail investors in this initiative. The letter ...
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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds)

Letter to Steven Maijoor on the subject of closet indexers

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/ Public Letters, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

EuroFinUse calls on MEPs for equitable performance fees

EuroFinUse called on the Members of the European Parliament to put an end to performance fees of investment funds being only a one-way street, benefitting only providers and to the ...
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/ Public Letters

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