US expats will be among the worst affected after Hargreaves Lansdown suspended nearly 1,200 ETFs and investment trusts last week after they failed to produce a key information document (Kid) as required under the EU’s new Priips regulation.
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (Efama) is urging regulators to work with the industry to rectify “serious issues” in new rules, due to come in to force in January 2018, that are designed to enhance investors’ understanding of retail investment products.
Advisers in Europe need to embrace the hurricane of legislation that is about to hit them or risk “driving their business into a cul-de-sac with no reverse gear“, writes Chris Lean, a Czech-based chartered financial planner with Aisa International.
The UK regulator has decided that retail investment dealing, portfolio management and custody services will not fall under major new European Union disclosure rules.
The European Union has finally published details of its key information document (Kid), which are part of the controversial Priips guidelines, despite continued criticism from various industry bodies.
The widespread distribution models in many European countries are not understood properly by the European Securities & Markets Authority (Esma), making parts of its new product governance rules “unworkable” for financial advisers, according to Fecif’s secretary general Paul Stanfield.
The trade body representing international life offices has blasted the European Commission’s (EC) handling of the controversial Priips regulation, delayed last week until January 2018.
The European Commission’s one-year extension to the introduction of key information documents (Kids) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (Priips) has been welcomed across the investment sector.
The European Commission (EC) has decided to delay the introduction of the controversial Priips regulation by one year.
Twenty-three countries in the European Union have backed a 12-month delay to the introduction of the controversial Priips legislation, following a landmark rejection of its regulatory technical standards (RTS) by the European parliament (EP) last week.
The European Commission has finally been given a “bloody nose”, says the head of the trade body for international life offices, Alan Morgan-Moodie, referring to the European parliament’s decision on Wednesday to overwhelmingly reject the standard for implementing the upcoming controversial Priips regulation.
A ‘first’ for the EU Parliament ECON Committee took place on 1 September, says Ailo’s chief executive Alan Morgan-Moodie in an update on ‘what next for Priips?’.
