ESG & Sustainability

The outstanding growth of responsible investing will reach a new milestone next week, when investors will be able to trade European options tracking environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies for the first time. 

With US demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies on the rise, it is timely to look at the recent performance of the STOXX® USA 500 ESG-X Index. 

Earlier in the year, STOXX introduced the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index, a second-generation environmental, social and governance (ESG) version of the iconic EURO STOXX 50® Index that follows standard investment exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection.   

Earlier this year, STOXX introduced the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index, a ESG version of the iconic EURO STOXX 50® that follows standard responsible investment exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection.

September 18, 2019 – Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd has announced the results of the annual review of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index.

STOXX has announced the results of the annual review of the STOXX® Global ESG Leaders Index, with the number of companies in the benchmark of sustainability champions reaching a record high.

In May, STOXX introduced a fully-fledged ESG-X Index family comprised of versions of established benchmarks that exclude companies based on standard environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. 

As more data on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors becomes available and widely adopted, so does the debate grow about the efficiency and materiality of this information, and how best to use it while investing.  

STOXX has licensed the EURO iSTOXX® 50 Low Carbon NR Decrement 3.75% Index to Banca IMI to underly the first1 structured products distributed in Italy tracking a low-carbon strategy.

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has launched an ESG version of its flagship index EURO STOXX 50®.

UBS Asset Management has teamed-up with index provider STOXX and Sustainalytics to launch the world’s first environmental, social and governance (ESG) Euro Stoxx 50 ETF.

STOXX is introducing a second generation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks with a version of the flagship EURO STOXX 50® Index.