European Commission published a Consumer testing study on retail investors’ preferred option regarding performance scenarios and past performance information within the PRIIPs Key information document.
More information about the consumer test and the results can be found here.
We are happy to close another successful UCITS KIID annual update production round. Thanks to a productive cooperation with our clients, we have finalized the Key Investor Information Document update, adhering to the deadline of 19 February 2020.
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FundConnect has been helping asset managers with KIID production ever since the UCITS KIID was first implemented.
By Jens Jørgen Holm Møller, Experienced executive - international expert in asset management and business strategy
In January 2019, I finalized the first European survey on how to ensure quality in the annual ex post reporting, that is mandatory according to MiFID II. Since then, distributors of investment products for the first time have provided annual ex post information about all costs and charges to their clients.
In general, the reporting based on 2018 data was late and incomplete. As expected fund groups chose different frequencies for updating the EMT (daily, monthly, quarterly, or annual) and different deadlines for updating after New Year. Finally yet importantly, some fund groups chose the calendar year as reporting period whereas others chose another 12-month period. These differences caused a number of operational challenges for distributors and furthermore, information was not comparable from fund to fund. This definitely led to extra expenses, increased risk and operational inefficiency for the industry.
The Financial Data Exchange Templates (FinDatEx) has published the European MiFID Template Version 3.0 (EMT V3).
Find the template at https://www.findatex.eu/. More details are available here.
FinDatEx recommends that companies swith over to EMT V3 gradually. Firms may move to Version 3 from 1 January 2020, and the final deadline for implementation is 10 December 2020.