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Qontigo has become a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), underscoring its goal to advance sustainability in the investment industry.

SSF promotes the sustainable development of finance as a conduit for a safe and positive-impact world.

The index for German mid-sized stocks turns 25 today, in a year that sees important changes to its methodology.

Analytics | Index | ESG and Climate
Qontigo Summit Explores Climate Change Risk for Investors, Regulators
Climate change was at the center of Qontigo’s Investment Intelligence Summit last month, in the week of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, as investors and supervisors discussed the impact of a changing environment on financial markets.

STOXX Global 1800 Index ends 16.9% higher in 2020 after rising 4.3% in December. Momentum stocks shone throughout the year, while Europe, Value and banking shares were left far behind.

The STOXX® Global 1800 Index rose 4.3% in dollars in December, cementing a second straight year of double-digit percentage gains, as investors raised expectations that policy support and vaccines will help economies overcome the COVID-19-induced slump.

Deutsche Börse has announced similar requirements for new entrants to the Dax index.

The futures, part of the broader ESG derivatives family traded on Eurex, reach records as investors turn to ESG-compliant instruments to manage portfolios.

We talked to Qontigo’s Stephan Flaegel and Randolf Roth of Eurex about the new Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) structure and its impact on indices and related derivatives.

Analytics | Corporate | Index | ESG and Climate
Qontigo Summit Addresses Ascent of Sustainability in Investments, Need to Optimize Impact
Sustainability has moved from a tangential consideration to a crucial criterion in portfolio construction. A line-up of experts told this year’s Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summit how this evolution is re-shaping the entire investment landscape.

Liquidity provider Optiver conducts an environmental, social and governance (ESG) ‘pulse check’ of derivatives markets, by examining the performance of the most traded ESG future in Europe on multiple liquidity and commercial metrics.

A new Qontigo whitepaper examines this year’s outperformance of the ESG benchmark for German equities relative to the DAX and HDAX indices.