Lună: august 2018

STRONG WARNING ON THE PAN-EUROPEAN PERSONAL PENSION PRODUCT: BETTER FINANCE ONCE AGAIN ASKS EU LEGISLATORS NOT TO MISLEAD EU CITIZENS ON THE SO-CALLED CAPITAL “PROTECTION”

Date: 31st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE Summer has come and gone but the debate surrounding the PEPP’s “capital protection” feature remains on the table. With the ECON committee voting on the PEPP Regulation around the corner, BETTER FINANCE warns one last time that true capital protection implies that the

VZMD Press Release: ECB – VZMD indignation over recent EU pressures forcing Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution to withdraw from investigation of criminal acts committed during excessive capitalization of Slovenian banks

Date: 21st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE In last week’s extensive article entitled Pressures on Slovenia, Which Are Not Discussed Publicly (www.delo.si/novice/slovenija/pritiski-na-slovenijo-o-katerih-se-na-glas-ne-govori-81803.html), the leading newspaper (Delo) disclosed the continuous and ever greater pressures on Slovenia to withdraw from the investigation of these acts, despite reasonable grounds for suspecting that in

Soner Bahcuvan

Date: 20th August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE It is with sadness that BETTER FINANCE learned that Soner Bahcuvan recently passed away. He was a great friend of our organisation and, apart from his close involvement with the European Federation of Investors, instrumental in involving Boryad – the Turkish Exchange Traders

EUROPEAN COMMISSION PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF CROSS-BORDER EU INVESTMENTS IN LIGHT OF THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPITAL MARKETS UNION

Date: 1st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE With its Communication of July 19, the European Commission reaffirmed the illegality of intra-EU bilateral investment treaties(intra-EU BITs) and stated that ”EU investors cannot invoke intra-EU BITs, which are incompatible with Union law and no longer necessary in the single market’’. Intra-EU BITs

ESMA SCOLDS NATIONAL AUTHORITIES FOR SHORTCOMINGS IN THE SUPERVISION OF EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT OF UCITS

Date: 1st August 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) initiated a peer review and published a report that found that six national competent authorities (NCAs) need to enhance their supervision of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) operating with Efficient Portfolio Management Techniques