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Most ESG strategies focus on today’s leaders. The ISS STOXX ESG Climbers indices instead target companies improving their sustainability performance over time, offering exposure to the transition — not just the outcome.

Sparinvest and STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, today announced Sparinvest’s launch of the first Danish-domiciled Exchange Traded Mutual Fund (the fund) tracking the STOXX® Europe 600 index. The fund launches today amid growing interest from investors in European equities, and leverages the combined strengths of Sparinvest, a leading Nordic asset manager, and STOXX, a leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions, recognized for its transparent methodological approach.

STOXX has been named “Best Thematic Index Provider” at the MondoETF Awards 2026, one of Italy’s leading industry events for exchange-traded products, organized by MondoInvestor.

The STOXX Global Space Satellites and Drones index targets a transformative and far-reaching theme, and underlies a new ETF from BlackRock’s iShares. The sector is expected to be impacted by the listing of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), reportedly the largest IPO in history.

STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, today announced the expansion of its collaboration with BlackRock following the launch of the iShares Space Technologies UCITS ETF (STAR), which tracks the STOXX® Global Space Satellites and Drones index. The launch comes amid growing demand for global connectivity, navigation, Earth observation, and AI-powered analytics. According to McKinsey , space technologies are becoming essential infrastructure for industries ranging from transportation and agriculture to climate monitoring and digital services.

In this Q&A, the academic and practitioner discusses how the recently launched iSTOXX Ang Research Enhanced indices dynamically rotate between underlying factors to tilt toward signals that appear more attractive at any given time, and how other rules ensure efficient, benchmark-aware access to sources of return.

Changes are part of the quarterly regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX 30 ESG, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened, MDAX ESG+ and MDAX ESG Screened.

STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies and leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, today announced the new composition of the DAX blue-chip indices.

Global stock indices extended gains in May and ended the month at new all-time highs as investors grew increasingly optimistic that the US-Iran conflict is moving toward a diplomatic breakthrough.

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating quantitative investing by testing ideas more quickly and efficiently, synthesizing new data and replicating human decision-making.

STOXX Ltd. part of the ISS STOXX group of companies and a leading provider of benchmark and custom index solutions to global institutional investors, today announced the new composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index.

Dynamic risk mitigation, dynamic diversification and pre-defined protection are three strategies currently in demand when it comes to portfolio downside insurance. Tom Shuttlewood, Head of Strategy & Digital Indices, Product Development at STOXX, explains how each works and why they are increasingly being integrated into index-based investment solutions.