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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

Pensions Inadequacy: the High Fees often charged by European Pension Providers prevent many EU Citizens from enjoying a Decent Retirement

For the seventh year in a row, BETTER FINANCE embarked on the herculean task of gathering all the data on private pensions in 17 EU Member States and published its ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Pensions Report - The Real Return

BETTER FINANCE NOW CONTRIBUTES A TOTAL OF 28 USER-SIDE EXPERTS TO THE EU AUTHORITIES’ EXPERT AND STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

BETTER FINANCE is pleased to announce that Edoardo Carlucci, Research and Policy Officer at BETTER FINANCE - the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users - was appointed as ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance

The Volkswagen DieselGate Scandal

Time for a negotiated settlement for European investors:
  • VW has been dragging its feet over European claims
  • The company has paid out € 30 billion in the US
  • This ...
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/ Press Releases, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress

THE MORE YOU PAY, THE LESS YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET

New research by BETTER FINANCE on the Correlation between Costs and Performance of EU Retail Equity Funds without a doubt establishes a negative correlation between returns and fees Brussels, 20 ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading

FRENCH SUPERVISOR AMF ANNOUNCES NEW APPROACH TO IDENTIFY FALSELY ACTIVE FUNDS: WILL IT PUT IT TO EFFECTIVE USE?

BETTER FINANCE welcomes the recent publication by the French capital markets supervisor AMF of its "alternative" method to identify potential closet index funds. As pointed out in several studies by ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Financial Reporting & Audit

EU Elections: Are politicians willing to help citizens to improve the long-term value of their savings?

With the European elections around the corner, BETTER FINANCE took stock of the developments over the last five years in matters of financial policy at the European level. Although some ...
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/ Press Releases, Banking, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), CMU Barometer, Financial Education, Financial Reporting & Audit, FinTech, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress, Sustainabe Finance

Bail-in of retail Investors and Depositors should be Measure of Last Resort

BETTER FINANCE supports Commissioner Vestager in her decision to allow targeted compensation by the Italian government for individual investors and savers who were defrauded through the sale of risky financial ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Supervision & Redress

Fund Managers frequently pocket large portions of the Revenues of Securities lending

Securities lending is the practice of lending a stock, bond or other financial instrument in exchange for interest. Typically, the borrower pays a fee to the lender for the shares ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading

BETTER FINANCE celebrates its 10-year Anniversary & elects Axel Kleinlein from the German BdV as its new President

At the beginning of the week, BETTER FINANCE and its Member Organisations gathered in Bucharest, Romania, to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services ...
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/ Press Releases, Other

BETTER FINANCE is happy that the EP adopted the PEPP Regulation but hopes that the major “Guarantee” issue for European Savers can be adequately addressed in the near future

As shown by independent research into the real net returns of European pension savings carried out by BETTER FINANCE, pension savings products too often significantly underperform capital markets, and even ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions