ESMA analyses use of derivatives by UCITS equity funds
        
    
            
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                18 December 2019
            
        
            On 30 September 2019, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities market regulator advised that it conducted a study, on 10 September 2019, on the use of derivatives by UCITS equity funds in collaboration with researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).