The STOXX Blue-Chip Indices are made up of a fixed, defined number of companies that are supersector leaders and bellwethers of their economies and provide a liquid, easily investable, diversified and representative portfolio for investors targeting blue-chip investments.
Key benefits
Focusing on leaders
The indices track each market’s biggest corporate names in a narrower composition than our Benchmark indices
Diversified
The indices provide effective and replicable representation of economies and supersectors
Liquid
Some of the world’s most liquid derivatives are based on these indices
Key Blue-chip indices
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