Categorie: ENGLISH AREA

Despite a 10-year bull market both for European equities and bonds, the outlook for European pension savers remains bleak. Whereas returns have improved in recent years, the Better Finance study, Pension savings: the real return, once again shows that most long-term pension savings products did not, on average, return anything

Europe has made limited progress with its capital markets union, and decision-makers must do more to protect people’s right in the space, the advocacy group Better Finance said in a report looking ahead to today’s conference of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. “BETTER FINANCE believes that the CMU initiative

CONSOB, the Italian financial watchdog, invited me on November 8, 2019 to comment on their very interesting 2019 report on the behavior of Italian savers. Several findings were indeed thought-provoking. For example, 63% of Italian savers are loss averse according to the Report. However, their top choice (and more and

LUXEMBOURG, 4 NOVEMBER 2019 – Document optimisation company More Carrot has completed what is believed to be the industry’s first study of UCITS prospectuses. The findings shed light on a range of issues, including who uses prospectuses, the main purposes of use, what types of information they look for and

The Netherlands and Denmark have the best pensions systems in the world, according to a global study by Mercer. The survey examined 37 nations using 40 metrics to assess whether a system leads to adequate income replacement for retirees, whether it is sustainable and whether it has the trust and

„Savers across Europe with private pension plans endured a miserable year for performance in 2018 with widespread negative returns raising more concerns about the health of retirement systems across the region.” Read more

On Friday 11 October BETTER FINANCE hosted a great interactive Financial Education session at BETTER FINANCE Headquarters in Brussels with final-year Finance and Insurance students of the Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (@HOWEST) looking into FinancialLiteracy, FinTech & RoboAdvice!

For decades, tech mavens in the U.S. have used fiscally advantageous stock options for employees to spur innovation, rewarding employee contribution with unprecedented wealth. Unlike in Silicon Valley, where equity incentive plans have become as ubiquitous as foosball tables and midday yoga sessions, the options culture has yet to take