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As investor interest in sustainable assets continues to rise, a big challenge is how to ensure fund managers live up to their ESG claims.

Qontigo’s CEO Sebastian Ceria speaks about entrepreneurship, technology and sustainability on the Wharton FinTech podcast, interviewed by Miguel Armaza.

“The SDI AOP is a huge step forward by creating a set of easy-to-use and cost- efficient data – as opposed to a piece of required software – that can be incorporated into existing tools for investment decisions and reporting,” explains Ian Webster, Senior Managing Director at Qontigo.

According to Olivier d’Assier at financial intelligence and risk firm Qontigo, a Biden presidency and a Republican Senate would be “the best case for markets” among a range of outcomes.

“Top-line market volatility has indeed declined but remains high relative to history. In fact it would have to go down another 30 percent just to get to the long term median level,” said Melissa Brown, global head of Applied Research at Qontigo.

Rising volatility and correlation could trip markets, according to Olivier D’Assier, head of applied research for Asia-Pacific at Qontigo.

“Investors view data breaches as the cost of doing online business,” said Olivier D’Assier, head of applied research for Asia-Pacific at Qontigo GmbH.

Qontigo’s second win in this year’s Waterstechnology.com Sell-Side Technology Awards is for the best sell-side market risk product, the Axioma Factor-based Fixed Income Risk Model.

Data from Qontigo showed that value and earnings yield have underperformed since the start of crisis, aside from a few days in May.

The Lyxor DAX 50 ESG UCITS ETF (E909) is listed on Xetra with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.23%. E909 tracks the DAX ESG index, designed by Deutsche Börse-owned Qontigo, which offers investors exposure to 50 companies with the strongest ESG rating.

Qontigo, the index and analytics unit of Deutsche Boerse AG, said Wednesday that it has launched a new market benchmark targeting companies “addressing the rising obesity levels in the global population” that are also set to benefits from health trends among millennials.

Olivier d’Assier observed that the spread between BBB-rated, non-financial corporate bonds that are dollar-denominated and their global counterparts spiked to nearly 400 basis points.