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Qontigo announced today the appointment of Brian McArthur-Muscroft as Chief Financial Officer. McArthur-Muscroft was formerly CFO of Micro Focus International plc, the British multinational software and information technology company, where he also served as a member of the board of directors since 2018.

Analytics | Corporate | Index | ESG and Climate
Qontigo Summit Addresses Ascent of Sustainability in Investments, Need to Optimize Impact
Sustainability has moved from a tangential consideration to a crucial criterion in portfolio construction. A line-up of experts told this year’s Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summit how this evolution is re-shaping the entire investment landscape.

Corporate | Portfolio Construction
Qontigo Names Courtney Scharff as Global Head of Strategic Partnerships
NEW YORK, August 4, 2020 – Qontigo announced today the appointment of Courtney Scharff as Global Head of Strategic Partnerships. In this role, she will oversee Qontigo’s strategic partnerships across index and analytics. Most recently, Scharff has been at Bloomberg since 2016 where she served as Global Head of Index Data Management Solutions and, subsequently, […]

Analytics | Portfolio Risk Management
Diversification Enhancer or Performance Detractor? The Concentration Rule’s Impact on Growth Performance
Yet another issue has recently cropped up, leading to unique challenges for investors in the current market environment — the impact of SEC diversification rules, which until now have not had a substantial portfolio impact. My colleague Diana Baechle recently wrote a blog post detailing the substantial impact of the FAANG stocks on risk and […]

Former FTSE Russell and MSCI executive brings extensive experience in index and analytics sales to Qontigo.
Qontigo today announced the results of the annual Country Classification review for STOXX indices.

Analytics | Regulatory Reporting
Axioma and S&P Dow Jones Indices to create an innovative new set of factor-based indices
Innovation, collaboration and factor indices. This week’s news optimizes all three, with S&P Dow Jones Indices announcing plans to develop new strategies across the smart beta and ESG space, powered by Axioma.

What caused the financial crisis? Does anyone actually know? Was it lack of regulation or de-regulation? Or, was it lack of understanding of the significance and the complexity of the securitisation markets?