Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 04/2010

Restoring Investor Confidence in European Capital Markets

Diego Valiante

February 2010

Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract

Investors have a longer memory than the sell-side of the market, and the financial crisis knocked the confidence of investors at all levels. Restoring Investor Confidence in European Capital Markets is a report of the the European Investors’ Working Group, an independent non-political investor group composed of members from the retail and institutional investment industry community. This report provides a framework of recommendations for the EU regulatory and supervisory agenda from the investor’s perspective, guided by the six objectives of: investor protection; better transparency; market integrity; market efficiency, quality of supervision and competitiveness of EU markets.