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Date: 23rd March 2017 In 2013, the Financial Conduct Authority (the City’s Financial Watchdog) adopted a reform relating to fees charged to investors for fund management and financial advice. It decided to ban the “bundling of charges” and to stop fund groups from paying commission to advisers. The idea behind

Date: 15th March 2017 First proposed in 2014 by the European Commission, the revised Shareholders’ Rights Directive (2007/36/EC) was adopted on the 14 of March 2017 by the European Parliament. As pointed out by the European Commission in its press release, this revision is aimed at “ contributing to the

Date: 14th March 2017 Last week, ShareAction, a UK registered charity promoting an investment system which serves savers, society and the environment, released a survey on Responsible Investment Performance of European Asset Managers. For this study, ShareAction has examined and ranked the transparency and Responsible investment practices of 40 of

Date: 14th March 2017 Today, the European Parliament adopted the revised Shareholders ‘rights directive, which was presented by the European Commission in April 2014. On this occasion, Commissioner Jourová said: „We have learned our lessons from the past. For a stable European economy, it is essential to look beyond fast

Date: 13th March 2017 Whereas in the US VW admitted its wrongdoing and set aside billions of dollars for car owners, European consumers are being left high and dry. VW claims that there is no need to compensate European consumers since according to them they did not suffer losses in

Date: 3rd March 2017 The purchase of the Robo-adviser FutureAdvisor by BlackRock in 2015 (the world’s largest asset manager) shows the increasing interest from ETF providers for automated online investment services for financial advice. A study published by BI Intelligence revealed that Robo-advice will grow rapidly in the coming years

Date: 2nd March 2017 Proposed by the European Commission in 2011, to make sure the industry made a “ fair contribution” after taxpayers bore the costs of the financial crisis, the Financial Transaction Tax ( FTT) is under discussion regarding its effects on pension funds. On the 21st of February,

Date: 2nd March 2017 Launched in September 2015, the Capital Markets Union (CMU) is a key pillar of the Investment Plan which aims to tackle investment shortages head-on by increasing and diversifying the funding sources for Europe’s businesses and long-term projects. In the third pillar of the Investment Plan –