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![Natural capital ‘wake-up call’: Understanding portfolios’ impact and dependencies on biodiversity](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/matt-walsh-iWlMkdR-lko-unsplash_900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Natural capital ‘wake-up call’: Understanding portfolios’ impact and dependencies on biodiversity
As biodiversity garners increased attention and data availability expands, understanding its effect on portfolios becomes paramount. In our first edition of Perspectives, we spotlight how ISS ESG’s innovative methodologies can help assess a portfolio’s impact and natural capital dependencies.
![Multifactor strategies: Proving their worth in the factor investment landscape](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PO490_listing.jpg)
Index | Factor Investing
Multifactor strategies: Proving their worth in the factor investment landscape
A new study from specialists at BlackRock and STOXX explores the potential benefits of low tracking-error, multifactor portfolios. While factor investing has historically been dominated by single-factor strategies with relatively strong tilts, the authors show that diversification across multiple factors with smaller tilts and less tracking error can pay off in the long run.
![Green Efficient Frontiers: Practical Considerations in Constructing Sustainability Portfolios](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/valueesgvsvaluecomparison_intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Whitepapers
Green Efficient Frontiers: Practical Considerations in Constructing Sustainability Portfolios
Our analysis shows how an optimized sustainability index can decrease active risk and free up more of the risk budget to be allocated to the desired sustainability metric(s), making the resulting portfolio a suitable replacement for a traditional benchmark.
![MASTERCLASS: Factor Investing – June 2023](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/best-index-provider-900x350.jpg)
Recent market developments and investing trends have prompted investors to reconsider their investment allocations. Factors assist investors in understanding the present market and informing their investment decisions. Melissa Brown, Managing Director of Applied Research, joins two experts to discuss factor investing in this video.
![US STOCKS-Wall St set to open higher as investors eye inflation data, Fed verdict](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Reuters-logo-for-listing.jpg)
Portfolio Risk Management
US STOCKS-Wall St set to open higher as investors eye inflation data, Fed verdict
Melissa Brown elaborated on how the Fed is walking a fine line between tightening too much and driving the economy into recession or not tightening enough and keeping inflation high.
![Bloomberg Markets: The Close](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bloomberg-1.png)
Melissa Brown joined Bloomberg Markets to discuss the narrow equity market rally and why equities are doing so well despite an anticipated recession. Additionally, we also talked about the recent trading volume uptick and expectations for the upcoming FOMC meeting.
![CORRECTION: Changes in composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO578-intro-1-900x350.jpg)
Qontigo has announced the new composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index. This is an amendment of the previous changes in composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index, announced on June 1, 2023.
![Tracking Error 101: The Intuition Behind Measurement and Control](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tracking-error-101-intro-900x350.jpg)
This article provides a high-level refresher of what tracking error means, and how we can embed it directly into portfolio construction.
![Green efficient frontiers. Part 1: Minimizing the risk impact of exclusions](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Blue-and-Green-original-intro-900x350.jpg)
Our analysis shows how an optimized sustainability index can decrease active risk and free up more of the risk budget to be allocated to the desired sustainability metric(s), making the resulting portfolio a suitable replacement for a traditional benchmark.
![European financial stocks hit hardest by banking turmoil](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/europeanfinancialscrisisblog_intro-900x350.jpg)
The collapse of a Californian bank triggered a rapidly-spreading banking crisis, with Europe suffering the brunt of it. European Banks, Financial Services firms and Insurers have fallen more than their US counterparts, while the risk of each one of those sectors in Europe has jumped.
![Bank credit spread contagion – how bad could it get?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO597-intro-900x350.jpg)
The recent collapse of several banks has sparked fears of a 2011-style “doom loop,” in which losses in the financial sector spread to the wider economy. So far, contagion has been limited, but a further deterioration in credit quality could result in drawdowns across all sectors.