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Olivier D’Assier, APAC Applied Research Head at Qontigo, discusses the latest on the markets. He spoke with hosts Doug Krizner and Vonnie Quinn on “Bloomberg Daybreak Asia.”

Paul Allen in Sydney and Kathleen Hays in New York drive to the Asia, Australia and New Zealand market opens while wrapping the biggest stories of the previous day on Wall Street. One of today’s guests: Olivier d’Assier, Qontigo Head of Applied Research, APAC (Source: Bloomberg)

In the current environment of rising inflation, interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty iShares relaunched two ETFs in its factor suite (LRGF and INTF), using a multifactor strategy from index provider Qontigo.

Vidrio Financial and Qontigo announced the expansion of their existing partnership to work more closely together and provide enhanced risk solutions to the multi-asset class institutional allocator market.

Individual developed market currency risk falls, but aggregate risk remains high; Momentum suffers while Value soars; Trading volume remains low, especially in Information Technology and Communications Services.

Yields see-saw over mixed economic data and central-bank comments; Yen plummets as BoJ defies markets by leaving yield cap in place; Decoupling stock and bond prices reduce portfolio risk.

The largest constituent of Germany’s equity benchmark has announced it plans to delist its shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A replacement in DAX and STOXX indices will be announced on Feb. 17.

Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announces that Linde plc will be deleted from the DAX index effective 27 February 2023. The reason for this is the company’s announcement related to the delisting of its ordinary shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Qontigo is proud to announce the unveiling of a new version of its logo, featuring our Chinese name, 旷势 (Kuangshi).

The recently launched STOXX Global Metaverse Index uses a sophisticated methodology to screen those companies with the most relevant patents in technologies associated with the Metaverse. This allows investors to target innovators whose products and services are likely to be leading the transition to the virtual world in the coming years. A new Qontigo whitepaper explores the index in detail.

US Risk-On Rally led by Market Sensitivity, Volatility Factors; Emerging/Developed Diversification Ratio Continues to Grow

In this paper, we explore the rationale and methodology behind the construction of the index. We start by explaining the concept of megatrends and how they can be captured through thematic indexing, using a multifaceted approach. We look as well at the index performance before concluding with an outlook on the opportunities for the Metaverse in the years to come.