News & Research

Tom Shuttlewood, Head of Strategy and Digital Asset Indices within Product Development at STOXX, spoke during the Eurex Focus Day on Volatility about possible avenues to expand the current offering of the STOXX volatility indices.

From the effect of compounding to volatility decay and little interest, there are frequent misconceptions about trading leveraged ETPs. Oktay Kavrak, Head of Communications & Strategy at Leverage Shares, addresses five of them to set the record straight.

A trading analysis of the past 12 years shows a large portion of the daily returns in the EURO STOXX 50 index occurs between a session close and the immediate open the following day. But does it pay off to trade this nighttime boost? Hamish Seegopaul, Global Head of Index Product Innovation at STOXX, takes a look.

Germany’s DAX is outperforming pan-European indices and its ETFs are luring record flows in 2025. Veronika Kylburg, Head of Global Benchmarks DAX at STOXX, discusses with the ETF publication what some of the drivers are behind this performance and explores the benchmark’s methodology changes since 2018.

In a recent webinar, Lukas Ahnert, Senior Product Specialist at Xtrackers by DWS, and Arun Singhal, Head of Product Management and Client Success at STOXX, discussed the drivers behind Europe’s stock rally and the latest investment strategies designed in collaboration by both firms.

Timing the market is difficult, but how can we measure the degree of difficulty? A new STOXX whitepaper explores a metric — the ‘tail-implied volatility (TIV) spread’ — that can help investors understand the risk of anticipating market trends for different portfolios.

AI is a vast and complex theme that covers multiple conceptual areas and technologies. How do patents help identify the AI innovators that are selected into STOXX thematic indices? We asked EconSight’s Kai Gramke and STOXX’s Ladi Williams.

Ladi Williams, Head of Thematics and Strategy Index Product Management at STOXX, explains how the index provider has catered to the specific needs and objectives of ETF managers in devising a series of indices targeting the defense sector.

DWS and STOXX have collaborated in the launch of ETFs tracking the ISS STOXX® Biodiversity indices. The product specialist discusses ongoing trends in climate and biodiversity investing, and why data is enabling a more thorough assessment of companies’ impact on our natural world.

Saumya Mehrotra, from STOXX’s Index Product Management team, recently talked to the Index Industry Association (IIA) for their ‘Index Minutes’ video series. She described the basics and the evolution of sustainability indices, and explained why index providers are at the core of sustainable investing.

Ladi Williams, Head of Thematics and Alternative Strategies at STOXX, explains in an article on ETF Stream how we have catered to the specific needs and objectives of ETF managers in devising a series of indices targeting the defense sector.

The world is in immediate need of vast amounts of data centers, chips and energy. Omar Moufti, Thematics & Sectors Product Strategist at BlackRock’s iShares, explains how to harness the upside from the infrastructure supporting the AI revolution.