BETTER FINANCE position on the classification of investment funds regarding sustainability
EU Law rightly requires information provided to individual investors to be clear, i.e., “presented in a way that is likely to be understood by, the average member of the group ...
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BETTER FINANCE Concerned About the European Commission Abandoning the Necessary and Urgent Audit Reform Announced in November 2021
In June 2020, the Wirecard scandal unraveled, generating unprecedented retail investor detriment worth about €20 billion. BETTER FINANCE reacted, labelling it an “outrageous case of corporate governance, external auditing and ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the survey for the CEPS Study for the review of the Audit Directive and Regulation
CEPS together with Milieu and Europe Economics have been commissioned by the European Commission (Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) to conduct a study on the ...
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Solvency Reports (SFCR) 2021 under examination: the Body Mass Index of the life-insurance industry | 2022 Edition
This report is a collaboration between analysts, actuaries, and researchers from consumer protection organisations. The purpose is to analyse and evaluate the fitness of a selection of life insurance companies’ ...
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European insurers between solvency, inflation and rising interest rates
BdV and BETTER FINANCE once again examine the stability of the main EU insurers This year, the German Association of Insured (BdV) together with BETTER FINANCE and Zielke Research again ...
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BETTER FINANCE letter accompanying its response to EFRAG on its draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
BETTER FINANCE published a letter accompanying its response to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) on its draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). In light of the proposals put ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EFRAG Consultation on Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards
BETTER FINANCE notes that the gap between users’ information needs and the sustainability information reported by undertakings is growing. Academic research demonstrates however that companies are reporting more often on ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the ISSB Consultation on General Requirements for Disclosure and Climate-related Disclosure
Individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors are significantly interested in sustainable investments and by extension rely not only on more data on climate or sustainability-related risks and opportunities, but also on more ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the European Commission Consultation on the review of suitability and appropriateness assessments
The European Commission proposes to replace the current suitability-appropriateness duality in the MiFID II and insurance distribution Directives, with a new, unique, and standardised suitability regime for all categories of ...
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BETTER FINANCE response to the EC Public consultation on strengthening the quality of corporate reporting and its enforcement
BETTER FINANCE and its member organisations representing individual, minority shareholders see the framework for sound functioning and trustworthy listed issuers as comprising three key dimensions: first, sustainable corporate governance (corporate ...
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