STOXX^® Europe Ex Tobacco Industry Neutral ESG

The STOXX Climate Impact Ex UN Global Compact Principles and Controversial Weapons indices will include companies with CDP Performance Bands A to B- (pre-2016 Performance Band A to B).  Band A and A- includes companies that are seen as leading companies in terms of climate change: these companies are disclosing particular “actions” which mark them as leaders, as well as high scores across all other levels of the CDP Scoring matrix.  Scoring requires detailed company-specific explanations.  Band B & B- includes companies that “manage” climate change: companies seek evidence of climate actions implemented and requires company-specific understanding of climate change related issues. The index also exlcudes companies violating international norms, are involved with controversial weapons, tobacco, thermal coal, civilian firearms, military equipment, and unconventional oil and gas.

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With the Dividend Points (DVP), STOXX Ltd. provides additional data linked to STOXX indices as an underlying for derivative products. It provides pure dividend data of the respective indices and increases the investors ability to focus on the fundamentals that determine equity values. The indices track gross cumulative cash dividends (i.e. the sum of the individual cash dividends) that are announced and paid by the constituents of the respective indices during the annual period. The STOXX Dividend Points (DVP) enables investors to hedge short selling and the possible resulting dividend impact.

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The iSTOXX APG Emerging Markets Responsible Indices are a series of indices designed to track and quantify the impact of different ESG, Carbon and SDI constraints and tilts on a broad emerging global market cap index. The weighting of each constituent security is determined through an optimization process that is designed to minimize tracking error to the benchmark while improving the ESG, Carbon and SDI exposures.

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