ESMA_QA_1165

Status: ✅ Answer Published

Link to ESMA Q&A tool: https://www.esma.europa.eu/publications-data/questions-answers/1165

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Regulatory Context

Regulation : UCITS

Level 1 Regulation: Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) Directive 2009/65/EC

Level 2 Regulation: No information available

Level 3 Regulation: No information available

Topic: UCITS eligible assets and investment restrictions

Subject Matter: KIID Financial indices

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Question

Submission Date: 24 March 2014

Do the guidelines on financial indices apply only to index-tracking UCITS?

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ESMA Answer

Answer Date: 24-03-2014

[ESMA 34-43-392 UCITS Q&A, section 3, Q&A 7b] No, the guidelines on financial indices apply to any UCITS investing in financial indices and not only to index-tracking UCITS. This means that the guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues take precedence over the guidelines on eligible assets issued by CESR in 2008 (Ref. CESR/07-044b) and that UCITS should not invest even a small amount of their assets in financial indices that do not comply with paragraphs 48 to 61 of the guidelines.

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