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Emerging countries: the emerging countries are the following:
South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, South Korea, Morocco, Mexico, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan, Venezuela.

Employee investment fund (FCPE) (Fonds Commun de Placement d’Entreprise): joint ownership vehicle for  securities whose purpose to manage employee savings in an employee savings plan or the profit-sharing reserve fund. The FCPE, which is not a separate legal entity, is managed by a management company and is controlled by a supervisory board made up equally of employee representatives and executives of the company. A business may have its own dedicated fund or be a member of a multi-company FCPE. A FCPE may not invest more than 10% of its funds in securities from the same issuer (except if these securities are issued by the business or are government securities or government-guaranteed securities of a member state of the European Union).

Entry fee: corresponds to the entry fees paid when buying UCITS shares or units.  The entry fee may be a fixed amount, proportional, or reduce or increase over time.

Eonia (Euro Over Night Index Average): This European overnight interest rate replaced the French TMP on 4 January 1999. It is obtained from the amounts and rates applied in overnight transactions undertaken and communicated by a panel of 57 European banks, of which 10 are French. It is calculated by the European Central Bank and published by the European Banking Federation.

ETF: (Refer: Trackers)

Ethical (or socially responsible) management: this new generation of funds seeks to combine returns with the respect of moral, social and ecological criteria. Managers select shares in companies assessed as being responsible in these areas and without compromising stock market performance. Several of these funds exclude shares of companies in industries such as armament, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, etc.

Ethical management: this type of management defines funds that select securities in companies clearly demonstrating an awareness of their responsibilities in the following areas: human resources, the environment, customer/supplier relations, shareholders, the community.

Euroclear: official organisation for the management and listing of stock exchange securities that succeeded Sicovam following the merger of the two entities on 10 January 2001.
Euroclear is a global settlement/delivery system for domestic and international transactions in bonds and equities. It proposes its services to major financial institutions located in more than 80 countries. (www.euroclear.com)

EuroPerformance categories: they take into account the investment policy and allow for comparison of UCITS in accordance with their management objective.
EuroPerformance therefore publishes listings of performance enabling UCITS to be classified following their performance and through these categories.

EuroPerformance index: The EuroPerformance index gives an overall trend, for a given period, of the evolution of a UCITS category.
Each index represents the average general performance for each UCITS making up the category, weighted by the assets at the end of the previous month. These indices are calculated on a weekly basis.

Exit fee: corresponds to the exit fees levied when shares or units in a UCITS are sold. The exit fee may be a fixed amount, proportional, or reduce or increase over time.