For a New Securities Investment Culture
FOR A NEW SECURITIES INVESTMENT CULTURE Annual Report 2017 EDITORIAL Thank you … … for the many good wishes that we have Our training and ongoing education initiatives recently received from the financial policy also provide significant added value. spokespersons of the various parliamentary factions, from the chairpersons and presidents However, the central focus of the activities of other associations, as well as from company of our association is and will remain political directors on our ten-year anniversary [see also communications. In this context, we support pages 26 and 27]. We were delighted to receive the numerous regulatory projects of legisla- them, and we are also rather proud of what tive bodies and supervisory authorities at the we, as a young association, have been able national as well as European level. We write to achieve for our members and sponsoring position papers, draw up discussion papers, members, as well as for the many structured state our opinion via the INFORUM informa- Dr Hartmut Knüppel products investors, in the past decade. As tion service and, together with our experts, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors early as 2008, the year of our establishment, engage in technical dialogue with political deci- we launched an extensive transparency initia- sion-makers. As a political interest group, we tive with our members. We were, and still are, are committed to ensuring clear and fair condi- convinced that effective investor protection tions for structured securities for the benefit of hinges on the comprehensibility and transpar- investors. And there is a lot of work still to be ency of the products.
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