Data | EFAMA

In the modern economy, data is increasingly becoming a strategic asset. This is particularly true for the asset management industry, where data forms the backbone of the daily activities and internal processes necessary to guarantee best practices in portfolio management.

Asset managers are major users of a variety of data, including market data, index data and, increasingly, ESG data. EFAMA advocates for, and seeks to support members’ access to, high-quality, standardised and comparable data at a fair price. EFAMA also encourages the creation of a well-structured, reasonably priced consolidated tape fed by all trading venues and systematic internalisers for all financial instruments.

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Capital Markets

MIFID

Capital Markets Union

Data

21 October 2025

Market data users have identified important gaps in plans for EU consolidated tape

List of recommendations show what is needed to ensure a successful tape.

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Data

18 April 2024

Cross-cutting issues on EU data

The competitiveness of EU asset managers is heavily reliant on the quality, stability, cost-efficiency and predictability of the rules under which they operate.

As part of our recommendations to make competitiveness a central element of all EU policies, we highlight the importance of tackling anti-competitive market practices and the ever-increasing cost of various types of data.

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Data

Sustainable Finance

EU Taxonomy

Sustainability-related Disclosures (SFDR)

Sustainability reporting (CSRD)

01 December 2021

The European Single Access Point: a powerful tool for investors to assess the ESG performance of companies

EFAMA sees the European Commission’s proposal for the creation of a European Single Access Point (ESAP) as a crucial step in addressing the limited availability and scattered nature of financial and sustainability-related entity information at EU level.

Monthly Statistics February 2020 | Net sales of equity funds take a hit in February as Covid 19 crisis breaks out

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales data of UCITS and AIFs for February 2020*.

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Capital Markets

Capital Markets Union

Competitiveness

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Distribution ＆ Client Disclosures

EU Fund regulation

International agenda

Management Companies

Pensions

Stewardship

Supervision

Sustainable Finance

Tax ＆ Accounting

11 June 2020

Annual Review June 2019-June 2020

"It gives me great pleasure to provide you with an overview of our activities since our Annual General Meeting in Paris last year. While we were very much looking forward to hosting you all in Brussels this week, the current crisis and associated travel restrictions has forced us to improvise and turn our meeting into a virtual AGM.

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Capital Markets Union

Competitiveness

Data

EU Fund regulation

UCITS

International agenda

27 May 2020

EFAMA Market Insights | Issue #1 | Net outflows from UCITS in March 2020 - Industry weathers Covid-19 crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic significantly impacted financial markets. Stock markets across the world suffered a steep decline driven by lower economic growth and corporate profits. As anticipated, the crisis caused substantial net outflows from UCITS in March (EUR 313 billion). However, as a percentage of net assets, these outflows were no higher than in October 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis (2.9%).

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