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This paper focuses on creating SDG portfolios that maximize exposure to one, two or all SDGs. The study shows that it is quite possible to create a portfolio that significantly improves the exposure to SDGs without taking on too much active risk. An optimizer can help manage that active risk.

Sustainable investing strategies vary. Some investors, for example, simply want to improve ESG alignment. Others seek to maximize their impact on society, by investing in those companies that contribute the most to certain goals. While the metrics that underlie these approaches have some overlap, there is not perfect correlation, in terms of how metrics are defined, how portfolios are constructed, what is being targeted, etc.

A Qontigo analysis shows that the DAX enlargement contributed to the German benchmark’s diversification, decrease in concentration, stability and market representation, and resulted in relatively limited changes to style exposures. In most cases, those changes were not of significant nature.

In this paper we analyzed four tech-oriented thematic indices’ performance and risk through a factor lens leveraging Axioma’s Worldwide Fundamental Factor Model, and also compared their characteristics to the broad market indices.

Melissa Brown discusses the STOXX® Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark Index, and the strategy driving a higher return and lower volatility than its benchmark.

The EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index was launched last year as an environmental, social and governance (ESG) version of the EURO STOXX 50® Index, the blue-chip Eurozone benchmark. The ESG index incorporates both standard exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection. In other words, it excludes companies engaged in controversial activities and those with low ESG scores, and […]