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Index | Thematic Investing
Unveiling the biodiversity paradigm: an emerging risk frontier for portfolios
At a recent IPE webinar, experts from STOXX, ISS ESG and DWS discussed how biodiversity impact is becoming a new risk consideration for portfolio managers amid tightening regulation and client demand. Participants also examined the new ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices as a framework to tackle nature-related risks and opportunities.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
IIA’s Third Annual ESG Survey of Global Asset Managers Reveals That Widening Factors, Expanding Asset Classes, and Emerging Tech Are Driving a Maturing ESG Landscape
The IIA published their third annual ESG Global Survey of Asset Managers, revealing that widening factors, expanding asset classes, and emerging tech are driving a maturing ESG landscape.
Index | Index reviews
Telefonica Deutschland, Qiagen, Hugo Boss among companies joining DAX ESG indices
Changes were announced as part of the June regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Video: Antonio Celeste on Sustainability at Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2023
At the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2023, Antonio Celeste, Director, Sustainable Product Management at Qontigo spoke about sustainability, greenwashing, and biodiversity. Watch the whole interview here:
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?
Index | ESG & Sustainability
New ISS STOXX indices use comprehensive framework to help investors address biodiversity challenges
The fight to preserve our nature’s systems is intensifying, presenting both additional risks and opportunities for investors. Qontigo’s ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices offer a multi-step framework to address biodiversity challenges while employing state-of-the-art datasets.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
The future of mobility: thematic investing in the clean transport revolution
The goals of the Paris Agreement depend inexorably on the decarbonization of the transport sector and, therefore, on the widespread adoption of electric cars. Investors can join the clean transportation megatrend through targeted thematic strategies.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo publishes guide for SFDR-aligned Sustainable Investment methodology
Our Sustainable Investments team has produced a document detailing the methodology for reporting the sustainable investment percentage of STOXX and DAX indices. The rules are aligned with the spirit of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and are designed, among other things, to bring specificity and flexibility when constructing sustainable portfolios.
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.
Citigroup has expanded its suite of thematic structured products linked to STOXX indices that are adapted for participation products.
At a recent IPE webinar, experts from Qontigo and DWS discussed how investors can build a sustainable strategy considering their impact objectives, tracking error budgets and the need to comply with evolving regulation.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Paris-aligned STOXX indices licensed to four German states for multi-billion ‘dark green’ pension mandate
Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia are heightening the responsible profile of state pension funds by adopting customized versions of STOXX Paris-aligned benchmark indices for their investments.