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Following the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, returns for many style factors have been extremely large and in the opposite direction to what could be expected given their long-term history. Such performances may be of particular interest as style factors tend to go haywire at market inflection points and often in advance of a crisis.

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.

Kristoffer Fürst, CEO of Limina, explains how the integration of Axioma Risk into his company’s platform creates an offering of order and data management workflows that’s seamlessly combined with comprehensive portfolio risk analytics.

Two panels at the SRP Europe Conference 2023 discussed the role of index design in building structured products for a changing market landscape. Topics covered include rising interest rates and volatility, and growing demand for sustainability and thematic investment strategies.

The modular STOXX World indices allow investors to flexibly build portfolios covering a broad and liquid universe of stocks, slicing and dicing the world’s equity markets along regions, countries, market capitalization and sectors.

Silicon Valley Bank’s failure has impacted stock prices for regional banks, which have lost over 25% in the short period since the announcement that the bank needed to raise more capital on Thursday. However, how has this affected the credit markets?

The exchange during a recent Savvy Investor webinar centered around ways to measure companies’ contribution towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and use those metrics in investment processes.

Changes were announced as part of the March regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.

As part of the recently announced partnership between CEPRES and Qontigo, we are developing a suite of factor risk models that provide broad coverage of the private market space in Axioma Risk.

The STOXX Global 1800 index fell 2.3% in dollars but climbed 0.1% in euros in February. Better-than-expected US economic reports in the month raised concerns that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates further and for longer.

One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, these are the top 10 takeaways from its effects on European equity markets.

Four new indices have been added to the STOXX Equity Factor suite, which offers diversified multifactor exposure to five equity style risk premia sources. Powered by STOXX’s indexing capabilities and Axioma’s risk models and portfolio optimizer, the indices deliver balanced and well-researched factor exposures, seeking long-term outperformance.