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By Geoffroy Gailly, Partner and Julien Schmid, Manager KPMG Luxembourg
The PRIIPs(1) Regu-lation requires a short, standardised, pre-contractual disclosure document to be prepared and provided to retail investors investing in Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products.(2) This document will highlight, in particular, the investment objectives, returns and insurance benefits, and risks and costs that can be expected by the investor.
Despite the comments made by the industry highlighting the need for clarification of some aspects of the text, the European Commission approved the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the PRIIPs KID (Key Information Document) on 30 June 2016 without any significant changes to the final draft published by...
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