Thematic Investing

The collaborative ecosystem known as the sharing economy has revolutionized the way we access goods and services and indeed has become a deep socio-economic trend changing modern lives.

A new STOXX index combines a thematic approach with responsible criteria and low-volatility/high-dividend screens, highlighting the versatility of passive investing. 

Doxing, hacking, bugging, phishing. The world of digital communications has opened up a long list of modern threats, and companies are reacting to fend them off.

Last October, STOXX Ltd. licensed the STOXX® Global Fintech Index to Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management as an underlying for an investment fund.

15 November 2018 – STOXX Ltd. has licensed the iSTOXX® FactSet Automation & Robotics Index to BlackRock.

Inderpal Gujral, Head of Product at STOXX, discussed ideas on thematic investing at the Inside ETFs event that was held in London on Oct. 1–2, 2018.

STOXX has licensed the STOXX® AI Global Artificial Intelligence ADTV5 Index to Amundi as an underlying for an ETF.

Global revenue from the sale of artificial intelligence (AI) software may grow to $106 billion by 2025, from $5.4 billion in 2017, according to a new report from Tractica, a research firm focusing on human interaction with technology.

The STOXX® Thematic Indices family is expanding to incorporate another technology-based megatrend with a compelling growth profile.

In the past two years, blockchain has quickly established itself as an alternative technology with the potential to transform the way businesses are run. Some have compared its disruption capacity to the effects created by the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics or big data.

As part of the expanding STOXX thematic offering, we are excited to introduce a new index tracking four technologies transforming business globally. 

STOXX has licensed the iSTOXX Developed Markets B.R.AI.N. Index to the Canadian Coin Capital Investment Management Inc (Coincapital).