Will You Afford to Retire? | The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings | 2024 Edition | Country-by-Country

Was 2023 the year when European retail investors finally obtained the “fairer deal” that outgoing European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness had wished for them (McGuinness, 2023)? As far as long-term and ...
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Will you afford to retire? | The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings | 2024 Edition

Was 2023 the year when European retail investors finally obtained the “fairer deal” that outgoing European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness had wished for them (McGuinness, 2023)? As far as long-term ...
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/ Research papers

Unmasking Digital Deception: A Data-Driven Approach to Mapping and Combating Online Investment Fraud in Europe

BETTER FINANCE supports the findings of a key report titled Unmasking Digital Deception: A Data-Driven Approach to Mapping and Combating Online Investment Fraud in Europe. This report highlights the alarming ...
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CFA Institute & BETTER FINANCE Report on The Review of The Listing Rules in The EU

The report by CFA Institute and BETTER FINANCE critically reviews the EU’s listing rules, targeting reforms to improve public market accessibility for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It aims to ...
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Neobrokers’ Inception Paper

Neobrokers' Inception Paper | Summary This paper delves into the business models of neobrokers and their implications for retail investors, highlighting the transformative role these digital platforms play in the ...
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Will you afford to retire? | The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings | 2023 Edition

For long‐term and pension savers, the year 2022 was undoubtedly a calamitous one. Poor capital market performance and sky‐rocketing inflation across all European Union (EU) Member States resulted in disastrous ...
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Will you afford to retire? | The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings | 2023 Edition – Country-by-country

  • The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 - Austria
  • The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings 2023 - Belgium
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Will you afford to retire? | The Real Return of Long-term and Pension Savings | 2023 Edition – Executive Summary

For long‐term and pension savers, the year 2022 was undoubtedly a calamitous one. Poor capital market performance and sky‐rocketing inflation across all European Union (EU) Member States resulted in disastrous ...
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Transition investing: key challenges and opportunities

Transition investing refers to capital needed to improve economic activities, that are not environmentally friendly at present. Such capital supports the development of innovation and infrastructure, enabling current activities to ...
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CMU Assessment Report 2019-2022 | Building a Capital Markets Union “That Works for People”

BETTER FINANCE released its updated report on the progress of the European Capital Markets Union (CMU), and the results are discouraging. The report analyses the first five key performance indicators ...
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