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One of Asia’s largest banks sought to offer smart-beta products to its asset-owner clients, but lacked the capabilities to design sophisticated indices. We devised a series of co-branded indices that offer investors a spectrum of strategy tools and specific optionality, and gave our client flexibility, full support in index management, and the objectivity of a third-party index provider.

When a large Scandinavian asset manager extended its responsible principles to all investment instruments, it left its trading arm with no listed derivatives to manage flows and risk in equity portfolios. We worked with the client to develop indices that meet standard sustainable criteria, and launched in a relatively short time pioneering ESG-screened derivatives on these benchmarks on Eurex.