Misselling of Financial Products in the EU – Briefing Paper 2017

This paper tries to assess the regulatory and, more importantly, the supervisory (public enforcement) developments regarding the actual protection of savers, individual investors and mortgage borrowers since the 2008 financial ...
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Pension Savings: The Real Return – 2016 Edition

BETTER FINANCE published the 2016 Edition of the "Pension Savings: The Real Return". One can supervise only what one can measure: Why is this pension savings performance report (unfortunately) unique? ...
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Closet Indexing Study – Annex 1.E. – Potential Closet Indexers 165 funds

ANNEX 1E BETTER FINANCE helps investors identify potential falsely active funds (“closet indexers”), and asks regulators to investigate further: It replicated the ESMA study on closet indexing and identified up ...
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Pension Savings – The Real Return – 2016 BETTER FINANCE Presentation

Presentation of the worrying findings of the BETTER FINANCE report on the state of pensions in Europe ...
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CMU Citizens’ Barometer – 2016 Presentation

One year into the project, how is the CMU faring for EU citizens as savers? BETTER FINANCE presented its CMU Barometer © in order for citizens to track its progress ...
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Robot Advice – a BETTER FINANCE Research Paper

BETTER FINANCE took a closer look at a sample of new Robot Advice providers, both in the US and in selected EU countries (Belgium, France, Germany, UK). The research concentrated ...
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“Pension Savings: The Real Return” 2015 Edition

Dear Visitor, Please note that this new version of the 2015 BETTER FINANCE Pensions Report corrects a few specific mistakes contained in the previous version. Please discard any previous version ...
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Briefing paper: “An EU Capital Market Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens”

BETTER FINANCE published its briefing paper on "An EU Capital Market Union for Growth, Jobs and Citizens" ...
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“Pension Savings: The Real Return” 2014 Edition

BETTER FINANCE published the 2014 Edition of the "Pension Savings: The Real Return". One can supervise only what one can measure: Why is this pension savings performance report (unfortunately) unique? ...
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The Real Return of Private Pensions

Recent OECD statistics have cast a dark shadow over the aspirations of private pension savers. Over the last 5 years, real returns from private pension funds after inflation have been ...
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