ESMA_QA_1168

Status: ✅ Answer Published

Link to ESMA Q&A tool: https://www.esma.europa.eu/publications-data/questions-answers/1168

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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

Paragraph 54 of the guidelines prohibits investment in financial indices which rebalance on an intra-day or daily basis but notes that technical adjustments made to financial indices (such as leveraged indices) according to publicly available criteria should not be considered as rebalancing in the context of the guidelines. What is meant by “technical adjustments”?

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ESMA Answer

Answer Date: 24-03-2014

[ESMA 34-43-392 UCITS Q&A, section 3, Q&A 7e] Technical adjustments in the context of the guidelines are adjustments which:

are based solely on algorithmic non-subjective frameworks; are generally published on an ex-ante basis; draw on publicly available criteria (or data); and do not rely on the judgement of the index-provider, for example, indices which follow mechanical rebalancing formulae.

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