Robo-advice: Automated? Yes. Intelligent? Not so much.
Extreme divergences between platforms and investor profiles in terms of asset allocation and expected returns reveal significant deficiencies in the suitability of the algorithms’ investment recommendations. From virtual meetings and ...
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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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BETTER FINANCE response to the call for feedback to the Platform on Sustainable Finance’s draft report on social taxonomy
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the horizontal and vertical dimensions represented in the objectives of the taxonomy. Furthermore, we would like to suggest expanding the horizontal dimension based on the promotion of ...
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BETTER FINANCE Response to the Joint ESAs Consultation concerning Taxonomy-related sustainability disclosures
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) - EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA issued a consultation paper setting out the proposed Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out the content and presentation of the ...
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NGO recommendations for a sustainable EU retail investment policy
It is very welcome that the Commission prepares both a Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy for July 2021, and an unprecedented, horizontal Retail Investment Strategy for early 2022. This briefing focuses ...
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BETTER FINANCE fully supports the Goals of the European Commission’s New Sustainable Finance Strategy and makes Suggestions to Maximize its Effectiveness
7 July 2021 – The European Commission (EC) has adopted a new ‘Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy' or Sustainable Finance Strategy. BETTER FINANCE commends the EC ...
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BETTER FINANCE Input for the Research Project by EFRAG, ICAS & EFFAS on the Production and Consumption of Information on Intangibles: An Empirical Investigation of CFOs and Investors
Intangibles are critical to the business model of many companies, and fundamental for explaining the value creation process particularly as we continue to move towards a knowledge-based economy. Notwithstanding their ...
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Empower the new generations of EU citizens as pension savers to engage corporations into a Sustainable Corporate Governance
BETTER FINANCE strongly supports the goals of the new initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance launched by the European Commission in order to reconcile economic growth, social progress, corporate governance and ...
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Joint Letter of Investors and Business Organisations on Sustainable Corporate Governance
BETTER FINANCE issued a Joint Letter regarding the European Commission’s initiative on Sustainable Corporate Governance. This communication asserts that leading European associations share a common perspective on the upcoming initiatives ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Consultation on Sustainable Corporate Governance
BETTER FINANCE considers the aim of the EC Commission to establish a European framework on Sustainable Corporate governance in order to better hold directors accountable to long-term oriented stakeholders praiseworthy ...
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