A Practical Guide to Ucits Funds and Their Risk Management

Ref: 9782874961724

Auteur(s): Charles Muller, Alain Ruttiens

ÉDITEUR: EDIPRO

Date parution: 2013-06-11

Catégorie: économie et gestion

UCITS funds today represent a major share of European funds. The European directives started with UCITS I in the mid-1980s, and have been amended up to UCITS IV in 2009, to be followed soon by a UCITS V package. In its first part, this book is summarizing the evolution and features of these successive sets of European regulations. Among others, it covers the UCITS eligible assets, the key parties involved in UCITS funds operations, their reporting and information requirements, taxation and many other useful related subjects, to give a short but useful understanding of the UCITS world. Besides, the UCITS IV directive is entering into the risk management field, which is materialized by the issue of a key document entitled Risk Measurement and the Calculation of Global Exposure and Counterparty Risk for UCITS (the famous ref. 10-788 Guidelines of the Committee of the European Securities Regulators CESR ). These Guidelines require some technical skills: the second part of this book reproduces the CESR s Guidelines, punctuated with comments and prerequisites of quantitative finance, to help for a better understanding of the content and significance of this UCITS IV objective.