11. Supports long-term financial planning, facilitated by policies based on anticipation and socially responsible and healthy investments; asks the Member States, with a view to sustainable employment growth, to support the channelling of savings into long-term investments through sound fiscal policies, efficient tax systems and policies that strengthen the ability of the economy to attract long-term investment, including from abroad;

1. The designation ‘ELTIF’ or ‘European long-term investment fund’ in relation to a collective investment undertaking, or the units or shares it issues, may only be used where the collective investment undertaking has been authorised in accordance with this Regulation.

- The enormous rise of financial transactions the last decade and the turn from long term investments to short termism and highly speculative and risk taking transactions, in particular in activities such as the High Frequency Trade (HFT), are clearly demonstrating a switch of the main role of the financial sector from financing the needs of the real economy to operations which have no productive impact and can severely disturb market prices and the function of national economies.

This Directive should not apply to managers of non-pooled investments such as endowments, sovereign wealth funds, central banks or credit institutions, institutions for occupational retirement provision or those institutions exclusively managing funds for occupational retirement provisions, or insurance or reinsurance undertakings for assets held on own account, or an undertaking which principally acts as an holding entity for a group of subsidiary undertakings and which owns strategic stakes in undertakings with a view to long-term holding rather than for the purpose of generating returns through divestment within a defined ...[+++]time-frame, to be regarded as a collective undertaking.

Nor, for the purposes of this Directive, should an undertaking which principally acts as a holding entity for a group of subsidiary undertakings, and which owns strategic stakes in undertakings with a view to long-term holding rather than for the purpose of generating returns through divestment within a defined timeframe, be regarded as a collective investment undertaking.

Even a commentator like Hans Tietmeyer, hardly open to suspicion as eager to restrict the free movement of capital, has sung the praises of the Chilean 'encaja', which penalises short-term investments, thus creating incentives for the long term.