Tune in on 12 October at 9.00 am CEST to POLITICO Live’s event “Raising the green game in finance: how can Europe deliver?” with the participation of EFAMA's Vice-president Peter Branner from APG Asset Management. He will be joined by
Tune in on 12 October at 9.00 am CEST to POLITICO Live’s event “Raising the green game in finance: how can Europe deliver?” with the participation of EFAMA's Vice-president Peter Branner from APG Asset Management. He will be joined by
We are thrilled to announce that Manulife Investment Management, an international investment management firm for institutional investors, and Macfarlanes, a top international law firm, have joined EFAMA.
The EFAMA Board approved their respective memberships on 14 September 2021.
Please join us in welcoming them to the EFAMA community!
Nine associations (AFME, AIMA, EAPB, EBF, EFAMA, FIA, ICI, ISDA, SIFMA AMG) welcome the Commission's decision to grant a time-limited equivalence decision in respect of UK CCPs. However, when this time-limited equivalence decision expires on 30 June 2022, there remains a significant risk of disruption to clearing for EU firms and to their access to global markets.
EFAMA has released its latest Market Insights report titled “Perspective on the costs of UCITS”. The full report breaks down the costs of UCITS, focusing on the fees charged for the different services provided along the investment fund value chain and distinguishing between the product cost for which fund managers are directly responsible, and the
EFAMA published its latest quarterly European statistics, tracking and analysing trends in European regulated open-ended fund assets and net flows during Q2 2021, including insight on the owners of investment funds in Europe and their net purchases of funds during the first quarter of 2021.
The main developments through the quarter are as follows:
Given the increasingly important role ESG ratings and data products providers play in investment processes, EFAMA welcomes the increased attention of regulators to this issue. In light of the growing regulatory scrutiny on the ESG characteristics of potential investments, improving the usability and reliability of the ESG ratings and data products is a key priority for the European asset management industry.
EFAMA and several other financial industry associations, raised concerns in response to a consultation conducted by the European Commission on planned changes to the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) framework.
The unexpected delay to the adoption of the revised PRIIPs RTS cuts the implementation period for the industry by more than two months. This leaves PRIIPs manufacturers and distributors with a too short period instead of the original timeframe of 12 months to implement the new rules.
EFAMA responded to a public consultation of the Platform on Sustainable Finance on a social taxonomy.
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.
This memo covers investments in collective investment vehicles (CIV) in contractual, trust, or corporate form (simply referred as funds) from corporate and institutional investors acting on their own account (e.g. banks, life insurers, industry companies, etc.) and the accounting treatment of such investments under the upcoming IRFS 9 rules. While IFRS 9 contains many positive evolutions, many of our members have been warned by their client investors that IFRS 9 would change their attitude towards investing in funds.
EFAMA welcomes EIOPA’s consultation and the opportunity to share our views on EIOPA’s recommendations to develop an EU single market for personal pensions.
EFAMA supports the conclusions of EIOPA’s impact assessment:
• The standardization of key elements of a PEPP - as proposed by EIOPA in its advice - with space to accommodate the specificities of Member States, is the best policy option.
• It would be difficult to achieve full standardization via harmonization because this would require bringing all national regulations on PPPs to one level.
EFAMA is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the drafting of the Regulation through a consultation and we appreciate the effort of the regulator to adopt an approach to reporting consistent with EMIR and to develop, where more efficient, a different reporting logic.
Discover the 6 reasons why your organisation should become a member of EFAMA.
Our members enjoy significant benefits including the opportunity to shape the industry positions, get first-hand access to regulatory and political intelligence, engage with industry peers and policymakers, and take part in EFAMA events.
Our three membership categories cater to the wide range of organisations that make up and support the investment management industry in Europe.