The analysis complements the regulator’s risk assessment, supervisory convergence and investor protection work, and contributes to the EC’s project on cost and performance of investment products under the Capital Markets Union Action Plan.
Estimating the cost of a structured product can be complex, while the large variety of structures available in the retail market complicates the analysis of costs and performance, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma). The European regulator’s first Annual Statistical Report on the cost and performance of retail investment products, states that a systematic EU-level analysis of the performance and costs of retail structured products is ‘practically imposs
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