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Transaction costs play a crucial role for any investor considering adopting sustainable principles in their investments. A new study from ISS LiquidMetrix and STOXX investigates the costs, and cost efficiencies, of shifting a benchmark portfolio of European equities to climate-transition versions.

Transaction costs play a crucial role for any investor considering adopting sustainable principles in their investments. This study from ISS LiquidMetrix and STOXX investigates the costs, and cost efficiencies, of shifting a benchmark portfolio of European equities to climate-transition versions.

Index | ESG & Sustainability
New report examines rationale, methodology of ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices
The publication explores the integration of biodiversity considerations in an investment process at a time of emerging nature-related risks for investors. The authors review what metrics are available to measure companies’ biodiversity impact, and describe in detail the four-step process behind the ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices and its results at a portfolio level.

Index | Qontigo Whitepapers
ISS STOXX® Biodiversity Indices: How to Incorporate Biodiversity Considerations in Index Construction
Biodiversity is vital for our planet and society. With the emergence of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, investors are gaining a better understanding of biodiversity-linked risks and opportunities in their portfolios. This paper begins by exploring the current metrics available for assessing the biodiversity footprints of companies. It then describes the ISS STOXX framework for building biodiversity indices, based on three fundamental steps: “Avoid,” “Minimize,” and “Enable.”

Analytics | Qontigo Whitepapers
What Are the Odds? Getting a better read on portfolio risk-return metrics
Risk management solutions can deliver a myriad of quantitative reports at any level and users often get bogged down with very detailed statistics about all aspects of their strategy, bypassing the important insight provided by summary metrics on their portfolios.

Analytics | Index | Qontigo Whitepapers
Green Efficient Frontiers: Practical Considerations in Constructing Sustainability Portfolios
Our analysis shows how an optimized sustainability index can decrease active risk and free up more of the risk budget to be allocated to the desired sustainability metric(s), making the resulting portfolio a suitable replacement for a traditional benchmark.

A new Qontigo article revisits the concept of tracking error, a metric that’s gaining even more attention amid the growth of sustainable portfolios. Hamish Seegopaul, Global Head for Index Product Innovation at Qontigo, addresses some key questions, including: How should the various degrees of tracking error be interpreted? Does the metric tell us much in terms of the future? And can we control this?

Analytics | Index | Qontigo Whitepapers
Tracking Error 101: The Intuition Behind Measurement and Control
This article provides a high-level refresher of what tracking error means, and how we can embed it directly into portfolio construction.

Analytics | Index | ESG & Sustainability
Green efficient frontiers: Minimizing the risk impact of exclusions in sustainable portfolios
A new whitepaper from Qontigo’s research team explores the benefits of constructing an exclusions portfolio with an optimizer, which helps limit active risk and frees up capital to allocate towards sustainability or performance objectives.

Analytics | Index | Qontigo Whitepapers
Green efficient frontiers. Part 1: Minimizing the risk impact of exclusions
Our analysis shows how an optimized sustainability index can decrease active risk and free up more of the risk budget to be allocated to the desired sustainability metric(s), making the resulting portfolio a suitable replacement for a traditional benchmark.

Analytics | Qontigo Whitepapers
Understanding private asset risk through the lens of Axioma Equity Factor Risk Models
As part of a partnership between CEPRES and Qontigo, a new suite of factor risk models that provide broad coverage of the private asset fund space is now available in Axioma Risk, Qontigo’s enterprise risk management platform.

Analytics | Index | Qontigo Whitepapers
Why have emerging markets become less risky than their developed counterparts?
Since late 2021, the STOXX Emerging Markets 1500 index has shown lower forecast and realized volatility than the STOXX Global 1800, a benchmark for developed economies. Using Axioma’s Factor Risk Models, a new whitepaper from Qontigo’s Applied Research team investigates the drivers of this anomaly.