Empowering Europe: Fast-Tracking the Savings and Investments Union

For the Savings and Investments union to succeed, a consistent overall strategy is essential. This strategy should bolster the European investor base, address the needs of listed companies in the capital market and efficiently connect the supply and demand sides of the market. In this position paper, Deutsches Aktieninstitut outlines key elements of such a strategy. These include increasing the use of capital market investments in pensions and wealth building, facilitating investment advice by reducing bureaucratic requirements, optimizing the use of existing capital pools by reforming diversification rules for investment funds and improving liquidity pooling for individual shares, simplifying reporting obligations for listed companies, better enabling capital raising, and implementing a practical and uniform supervisory approach.