PRIIPs: Concerns about misleading performance scenarios

Need to eliminate overly optimistic results

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PRIIPs suffers lots of criticism around its methodology for performance scenarios.

Both manufacturers and consumers claim the results are often too optimistic, since they are based on the past five-year performances and these were positive. In an effort to solve these issues, the ESAs introduce in PRIIPs RTS v2 a new methodology for the calculation of the favourable, moderate and unfavourable scenarios for most funds. Or more precisely, it applies to linear products, called Category 2 in PRIIPs terminology. The new methodology follows a back-testing approach over at least 10 years and the unfavourable scenario is based on the worst scenario found. Why should t...

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