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Euroshareholders

As part of BETTER FINANCE and through the EuroVote platform, Euroshareholders represents the interest of individual shareholders and seeks to improve corporate governance in the European Union.

EuroInvestors

BETTER FINANCE represents individual investors other than shareholders and keeps a close eye on crucial developments in terms of sustainable finance and the development of a Capital Markets Union.

EuroFinUse

BETTER FINANCE represents all other users of financial services across the European Union and works to improve horizontal issues such as supervision, enforcement and investor education.

Press Releases

In Memory of Wilhelm Rasinger – the Champion of Austrian Individual Shareholders

It is with great sadness that BETTER FINANCE learned on Monday 14 December 2020 that Wilhelm Rasinger, President of the Austrian Association for Investors (Interessenverbandes für Anleger – IVA) passed ...
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Ensure a Level Playing Field for ELTIFs to Take Off

With merely 22 active funds, of which just a handful are marketed and distributed to individual, non-professional (“retail”) investors, the EU Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) market is still struggling to ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Capital Markets Union (CMU), Securities Markets & Trading, Sustainabe Finance

The 2020 shareholder meetings harmed shareholder rights and often severely

The annual general meeting (AGM) is the cornerstone of shareholder democracy and an essential part of sound corporate governance. Not only are AGMs the place where shareholders get to vote ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

Greek individual investors join BETTER FINANCE via HELINAS

4 December 2020 – BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce the affiliation of a new member organisation in Greece. HELINAS, the Hellenic Investors Association, is a Non-Governmental Organisation established in ...
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BETTER FINANCE corrects PensionsEurope’s mudslinging allegations on Bulgarian pension returns

On 25 September 2020, BETTER FINANCE released the eighth edition of its research report on the Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings. More than a month later, on 5 ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Pensions Report - The Real Return, Supervision & Redress

Wirecard abuse review by ESMA reveals significant failures and conflicts of interests in national financial supervision and the need for effective collective redress for abused investors

BETTER FINANCE thanks the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for its “peer review” report on the Wirecard scandal. It is quite revealing of the many failures and conflicts of ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

Dismantling the Estonian Pension System is not the Answer

On Tuesday, 20 October 2020, the Supreme Court of Estonia ruled that the current government’s hotly contested pensions “reform” is not unconstitutional. The reform is set to dismantle the foundation ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions

European Parliament Reports on Capital Markets Union and Digital Finance: Retail Investors Finally at the Centre of EU Financial Policy?

Today the European Parliament (EP) voted on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee’s own-initiative report on the further development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU).[1] The report calls for ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

The Advent of Corona Pensions – 2020 is the Turning Point for Pension Policies

24 September 2020 - BETTER FINANCE releases the eighth edition of its report on the Real Return of Long-Term and Pension Savings, which marks a new milestone for the series, ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Pensions Report - The Real Return

All Talk, Little Action: European Commission releases watered down Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan

24 September 2020 – The European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) published a third action plan to build a Capital Markets ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), FinTech, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance