More must be done to improve European citizens’ financial literacy
This is evidenced in the second edition of EFAMA's report, "The European Asset Management Industry's Engagement in Financial Education Initiatives", released in March 2022.
The report, prefaced by Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, is divided into three parts.
EFAMA appreciates the opportunity to share our views on the European Commission’s consultation on enhancements to the suitability and appropriateness assessments forming part of the wider, upcoming Retail Investment Strategy.
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its International Quarterly Statistical Release regarding the developments in the worldwide investment fund industry during the fourth quarter of 2021.
The European ESG Template (EET) is meant to facilitate the necessary exchange of data between product manufacturer and distributor for the purpose of fulfilling ESG-related regulatory requirements contained in the SFDR, relevant provisions of the Taxonomy Regulation, and the relevant delegated acts complementing MiFID II and IDD. The EET V1 is based on the regulatory situation on the day of publication and will be reviewed regularly depending on the evolving regulation, and at least confirmed annually. With regard to the MiFID target market, the EET interacts with the EMT V4.
EFAMA released today issue number eight of its Market Insights series titled 'The Costs of UCITS and US Mutual Funds - We can only compare like with like'. This
We welcome the targeted approach of the Commission in its review, recognising the overall success of the frameworks over the past decade.
On behalf of:
CDP, Economy for the Common Good, EFAMA, Eurosif, Frank Bold, Finance Watch, Global Witness, Investor Alliance for Human Rights, Publish What You Pay, ShareAction, Transport and Environment, WWF
Dear Members of the European Parliament,
As a principle, EFAMA supports every effort made to enhance financial market regulation which reinforces the stability of the financial system, of which EMIR is an important part.
Prior to replying to the consultation, we wish to make the following general remarks.
Firstly, we fully support the points raised by ESMA that recognizes that several types of counterparties active in the OTC derivatives markets are facing numerous issues in relation to the access to central clearing due to:
The European Banking Federation, Insurance Europe, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the European Structured Investment Products Association reconfirm their full support for the objectives of the PRIIPs initiative. In light of consumer protection, the PRIIP Key Information Document (KID) can be a valuable tool enabling retail investors to compare products and, hence, make informed investment decisions.
EFAMA would like to make positive use of the opportunity to comment on the Commission recommendation dated 28 January 2016 on the implementation of measures against tax treaty abuse as well as on the implementation of TRACE for the purpose of simplifying withholding tax (“WHT”) procedures.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to provide comments to the ESMA Consultation Paper on the technical advice to the European Commission on the Benchmarks Regulation. EFAMA also welcomes a number of clarifications and improved points that ESMA is providing in its Consultation and draft Technical Advice since its previous Discussion Paper.
EFAMA strongly supports the objective to provide retail investors with a key information document (KID) for all packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs). It is important that investors and their advisers throughout Europe are given meaningful, comprehensible and comparable information to feel confident about investing and to make sound investment decisions.

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