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Index | Technology
Buy-versus-build in FinTech: benefiting from commoditization to gain competitive advantage
Neal Pawar, Chief Operating Officer at Qontigo, addressed the Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summits to give the practitioner’s perspective on how to improve efficiency at investment firms. He focused on whether to buy or build operations in a radically changed technological ecosystem.

Index | Benchmarks
Together in ’22: Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summit returns to London, New York
After two years of virtual gatherings, I’m thrilled to announce that the flagship Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summit will return in person this May. This year’s Summit, which we have called ‘Together in ’22,’ will take place in London on May 5 and in New York on May 19. The two events will offer insights on some of the most important […]

Analytics | Portfolio Risk Management
Qontigo adds US trading model to Axioma line of global equity factor risk models
Qontigo has introduced a trading horizon view (“Trading Model”) for the Axioma US Equity Factor Risk Model, currently available in a short-horizon, medium-horizon, statistical and fundamental variants.

Analytics | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo adds ESG risk data leader RepRisk to growing sustainability partner ecosystem
Qontigo has entered into a partnership with RepRisk, a pioneer and leader in ESG data science. Qontigo will enable solutions and access to RepRisk ESG risk data via Axioma portfolio analytics and risk models, and build indices under its STOXX family of brands.

Analytics | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo extends sustainability offering to portfolio construction and analytics tools
Qontigo has made available ISS ESG, Clarity AI and Sustainalytics data within its financial optimizer, Axioma Portfolio Optimizer (APO). Sustainalytics will also be integrated into Axioma Portfolio Analytics (APA) for performance attribution and reporting as well as Axioma Risk Model Machine (RMM), which allows users to create custom risk models.

We posted a blog in May 2018 specifically for asset managers who were still trying to integrate legacy technology into their investment ecosystem. Three years later, APIs are a must across the financial industry but not all APIs are created the same. We’ve updated this blog to include what it means to be API-first.

Analytics | Portfolio Risk Management
SimCorp partners with Qontigo for Portfolio Optimization and Risk Management, in Open Platform drive
SimCorp, an independent provider of SaaS investment management solutions and trusted partner to the global buy side, today announces a new partnership with Qontigo, a leading provider of analytics and indices, and part of the Deutsche Börse Group.

In the updated blog post, we answer some of the most frequently asked questions about cloud technology.

This whitepaper evaluates two thematic investment strategies – STOXX® Global Ageing Population (“Ageing Population”) and STOXX® Global Millennials (“Millennials”) – which seek exposure to these two distinct generations.

In this paper we analyzed four tech-oriented thematic indices’ performance and risk through a factor lens leveraging Axioma’s Worldwide Fundamental Factor Model, and also compared their characteristics to the broad market indices.

Qontigo announced today that Sebastian Ceria, chief executive officer of the company, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), broadly recognized as one of the highest acknowledgments of achievement in the field of engineering.

Qontigo has won The Asset Triple A ‘Best Index Provider, ‘Innovation’ and Best Index Provider ‘Technology’ Awards 2020 for its STOXX indices.