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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

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

Stakeholders and authorities show faith in European Personal Pension (PEPP)

PEPP only called into question by finance industry due to high costs for intermediaries 22 September 2020 - The latest draft of the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) delegated (level 2) ...
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/ Press Releases, Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

European Regulator is flexing its muscles to tackle “Closet Indexing”

Brussels, 11 September 2020 - On 10 October 2014, BETTER FINANCE wrote to ESMA[1] to ask for an investigation into the issue of falsely “active” funds, a practice also known ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Packaged Investment Products, Securities Markets & Trading, Supervision & Redress

National Supervisory Authorities Reject Rules for Key Information Documents for Retail Investment Products: it is high time to implement the European Commission’s High-Level Forum’s recommendations

Brussels, 31 July 2020 – In a letter to the European Commission’s Directorate General in charge of Financial Stability, Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) dated 20 June 2020, ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Life Insurance & Pensions, Packaged Investment Products, Supervision & Redress

Q&A Catalogue for Wirecard Investors

BETTER FINANCE's German member organisation, Deutsche Schutzverein für Wertpapiersitz (DSW), published a series of Q&As for duped individual investors and pension savers in light of the outrageous Wirecard AG scandal ...
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/ Press Releases, Capital Markets (equity & bonds), Securities Markets & Trading, Shareholder Rights & Corporate Governance, Supervision & Redress