Lună: ianuarie 2017

Date: 31st January 2017 For some years now, crowdfunding has provided a new form of financing for SMEs, start-ups and not-for-profit projects. The European Parliament, in its resolution on the 9th of July 2015 on building a Capital Market Union underlined the importance of crowdfunding “CMU should create an appropriate

Date: 31st January 2017 On the 25th of January, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs approved a report on a proposed regulation by the European Commission to guarantee greater financial stability for Finance Watch and BETTER FINANCE. This vote follows a proposal from the Commission put forth

Date: 30th January 2017 VW’s situation is going from bad to worst. Following the outbreak of the emissions cheating scandal in September 2015, the German carmaker is now declared personae non-grata in Luxembourg pension fund. The Grand Duchy’s Compensation Fund (set up to hold Luxembourg’s excess pension revenues) has added

Date: 27th January 2017 On the 7th of February 2017, Guillaume Prache, Managing Director at BETTER FINANCE, Gunnar Ek from Aktiespararna and Marc Mathieu, Secretary General of the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership will be speaking at a roundtable organized by the European Commission’s Directorate General FISMA. The roundtable

Date: 25th January 2017 The French Assets Management Association ( AFG) has asked the French government for a cross-border IORP which would be consistent with the PEPP discussed at the European level. In a white Paper, the French AM Association (AFG) called for the creation of a cross-border pension fund:

Date: 23rd January 2017 The European Commission is hurrying to the retirement industry against EU legislation that could hurt the sector. The European Market Infrastructure Regulation, passed in 2012, provides for an obligation for pension funds to put aside more money in order to comply with the EU legislation on

Date: 20th January 2017 An individual investor might be worried about the funds he picks or about his assets manager, but according to the theory called “behaviour gap”, the investor should first be worried about…himself. This tendency for investors to underperform the funds they are invested in is called the

Date: 19th January 2017 Eurostat has released its figures for the third quarter of 2016. The household saving rate in the euro area slightly dropped from 12.8% in the second quarter of 2016 to 12.6% in the third quarter of 2016. Similarly, the household investment rate in the euro area