EFAMA's Annual Review highlights our key achievements over the past 12 months and provides a useful overview of the main topics we cover.
EFAMA's Annual Review highlights our key achievements over the past 12 months and provides a useful overview of the main topics we cover.
EFAMA has today published its International Quarterly Statistical Release regarding the developments in the worldwide investment fund industry during the first quarter of 2023.
Today, the European Commission has released their proposal for a regulation on ESG ratings and data providers.
EFAMA has today published its 2023 industry Fact Book, which provides an in-depth analysis of trends in the European fund industry, with an emphasis on what happened in 2022.
EFAMA has today published its European Quarterly Statistical Release for Q1 of 2023.
On 24 May 2023, the European Commission unveiled the most extensive reform of the EU legislative framework for retail investment to-date. As representatives of the European financial and insurance sector, we (AMICE, EACB, EAPB, EBF, EFAMA, ESBG, EUSIPA, Insurance Europe) are still assessing the full range of impacts and changes put forward in the Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) across multiple pieces of regulation: MiFID II, the Insurance Distribution Directive, the UCITS Directive, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, the PRIIPs Regulation and the Solvency II Directive.
EFAMA has today published its latest monthly Investment Fund Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales data on UCITS and AIFs for March 2023, at European level and by country of fund domiciliation.
EFAMA believes that IORPs should be able to invest in financial instruments traded in all third country markets where the latter meet certain conditions, regardless of the adoption of an equivalence decision by the Commission (...).
EU asset managers, banks and brokers are today urging policy makers not to concede to pressure which will lead to suboptimal outcomes in the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID/R).
EFAMA offers a detailed view on the active accounts proposal in this paper. Costs to the end investor are broken down into two main buckets i) operational build-out and ii) in nominal terms the much larger impact of loss of netting efficiencies. Potential impacts on financial stability are also examined, with a focus on the widening basis which will result from large volumes of one-directional flows onto an EU-CCP. The impact on margins and procyclicality are also studied. The analysis points to increased liquidity risk for
EFAMA believes that IORPs should be able to invest in financial instruments traded in all third country markets where the latter meet certain conditions, regardless of the adoption of an equivalence decision by the Commission (...).
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the ‘Review of the scope and third-country regime of the Benchmark Regulation.’
Following the EFAMA's partial response to the European Commission's targeted consultation on the regime applicable to the use of benchmarks administered in a third country, we would like to make additional comments on the ongoing review of the regime.
In our response to ESMA on its review of the guidelines on stress-testing parameters for Money Market Funds (MMFs), EFAMA cautions against using overly simplistic assumptions.
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Trends in European investment funds (EFAMA Fact Book 2024 release on 18 JUN 2024)