How to end Europe's backwater investment status

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : A knee jerk restriction of tax breaks to domestic investment would either render the scheme unattractive or drive a poor capital allocation.
52% : A European Central Bank analysis found that if EU households put as much into equities and bonds as American counterparts, it could redirect a stock of up to €8tn, and an ongoing flow of €350bn a year, away from cash deposits.
48% : As European policymakers fret about the threat to EU competitiveness posed by Donald Trump, there is at least one US phenomenon that Europe would love to import: the country's ability to fund itself with dynamic equity finance provided by individuals and institutional investors.
47% : France's Livret A scheme is a partial blueprint -- it diverts the savings of bank customers into tax-free contributions to state priorities, like funding the defence budget.

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