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![ISS STOXX indices use comprehensive framework to help investors address biodiversity challenges](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1337691431_900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
ISS STOXX indices use comprehensive framework to help investors address biodiversity challenges
The fight to preserve our nature’s systems is intensifying, presenting both additional risks and opportunities for investors. The ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices offer a multi-step framework to address biodiversity challenges while employing state-of-the-art datasets.
![New STOXX Optimal 100 indices offer optimized replication strategies on benchmark portfolios](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO685-listing.jpg)
Index | New index launches
New STOXX Optimal 100 indices offer optimized replication strategies on benchmark portfolios
The STOXX Optimal 100 indices mirror their parent indices with a smaller constituency. In controlling tracking error and active exposures through an optimization process, the new indices offer a tool for efficient hedging of benchmark portfolios.
![A thematic approach to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO689-listing.jpg)
Nvidia’s formidable stock performance has lifted the company atop many indices. Thematic strategies can offer a more nuanced, and larger, exposure to the chipmaker’s shares.
![Exploring SDAX, the benchmark for German small companies](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SDAX_25Years_900x350_v3.jpg)
As the index turns 25 on June 21, we take a look at what makes up the world of smaller-capitalization German stocks.
![European ETFs reach USD 2tn in assets, doubling in four years](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO687-listing.jpg)
Buoyant markets and the ongoing shift to index investments put European ETFs on track for a tenth straight year of net inflows. Funds tracking the EURO STOXX 50 attracted USD 2bn in the first five months of 2024.
![STOXX Europe 600 index – The continent’s benchmark](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/STOXXEurope600_26Years_900x350.png)
The STOXX Europe 600 turned 26 this month, a lifetime during which the index has become a trusted barometer for the region’s equities. Used widely for the benchmarking of funds, the index is also the center of a growing ecosystem of investment products.
![New paper explores investor preferences through passive investment flows](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PO670-listing.jpg)
ETF flows can provide key information about the revealed preferences of investors. A STOXX paper analyzes fund purchases to determine the long-term choices across style, industry and regional exposures.
![European benchmarks – the STOXX ecosystem](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PO611-listing.png)
STOXX’s European benchmarks offer transparent and liquid exposure to the region, and are at the center of a wide ecosystem of derived investment strategies and products. Those characteristics have made the indices the top choice for issuers of investable products.
![STOXX Thematic indices: Capturing social and economic megatrends](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PO651-listing.jpg)
As it turns 13, the STOXX Thematics index suite continues to grow, offering investors exposure to structural megratrends changing our modern world. We look at the historical performance of the indices and zoom in on 2023 – a year dominated by technology themes.
![EURO STOXX 50 profile transformed by technology stocks’ ascent](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PO555-and-PO657-listing.jpg)
The sector composition of the Eurozone blue-chip benchmark looks very different from its inception 26 years ago. Most recently, two technology stocks – ASML and SAP – have had the biggest influence on the index’s direction, and may be re-positioning it in the eyes of investors.
![Charting innovation: digital asset edition](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/profitabilityemanddm_intro-900x350.png)
What is the value of diversification? We can visualize it using a simple three-asset portfolio, observing how the risk-adjusted performance changes when varying the correlation. Correlation measures the degree to which two variables move in relation to each other, and serves as a guide as to how well assets can diversify each other.
![DAX indices overhaul continues with methodology, data reporting changes](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/PO645-intro-900x350.jpg)
Since 2020, the DAX indices have undergone a sustained evolution to have their rules adjusted and aligned with the needs of modern markets. As of March 2024, the indices’ methodology will change the way they treat corporate actions, while data distribution will move to the reporting system used by STOXX indices. Additionally, the indices’ weight cap for individual constituents will be raised from 10% to 15%.