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Date: 3rd December 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE Today EU finance ministers are meeting to discuss proposals to give the Eurozone more powerful tools in order to prevent financial crises. One of them, a common scheme to guarantee bank deposits that has been pushed by Brussels, the European Central Bank and

Date: 3rd December 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE Today EU finance ministers are meeting to discuss proposals to give the Eurozone more powerful tools in order to prevent financial crises. One of them, a common scheme to guarantee bank deposits that has been pushed by Brussels, the European Central Bank and

Date: 29th November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE 28 November 2018 – Yesterday evening Euroshareholders, the shareholders branch of BETTER FINANCE, announced the winners of the 2018 Euroshareholders Awards at a ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany. This year, the Euroshareholders’ “Shareholder-friendly” Award, awarded to a DAX 30 company with the most shareholder-friendly

Date: 28th November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE Today, the European Commission has reported on the latest developments in risk reduction in the EU banking sector, as well as the progress towards an even more integrated and stable EU financial system. As outlined by the Commission, the risk reduction in the

Date: 26th November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, has pitched into debate over US investor rights, backing tougher rules on shareholder advice and “greater transparency” in resolutions and annual meetings. According to Barbara Novick, BlackRock’s vice-chairman, and Ray Cameron, head of investment stewardship for the

Date: 22nd November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE Low-cost robo-adviser Nutmeg says to be the first UK wealth manager to provide environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores, calculated using data points from MSCI. Its chief investment officer, Shaun Port, has encouraged other providers to follow their example and become more transparent,

Date: 20th November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities launched a consultation on amendments to the Key Information Document for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs). Since January 1, 2018, the EU PRIIPs Regulation has required providers of PRIIPs to prepare and publish

Date: 16th November 2018 Author: BETTER FINANCE In the past year, indices measuring markets have ballooned to more than 3.7 m, as providers produce a large number of bond market, environment, social and governance benchmarks. The rising popularity of passive investing has influenced the designing of means to measure everything