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![Benchmark DAX Grows to 40 Stocks – What’s the Impact on the DAX ESG Target Index?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DAX-ESG-Target-Sept-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Benchmark DAX Grows to 40 Stocks – What’s the Impact on the DAX ESG Target Index?
With DAX increasing its composition from 30 stocks to 40, we review the changes to the DAX® ESG Target Index, a sustainable version of the flagship German benchmark.
![Impact Investing: What Is It, and How Can Investors Get It Right?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Impact-Investing-What-Is-It-and-How-Can-Investors-Get-It-Right-900x350.png)
Impact investing is growing as a means to generate positive, real-world change. But defining, measuring and standardizing it is no easy task. A joint whitepaper from Qontigo and Clarity AI looks at some of the frameworks that are taking on these challenges and helps shed light on the way forward for the strategy.
![Northern Trust Asset Management’s Huemmer on Quality Factor ESG Strategies and Finding the Perfect Index Partnership](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Interview-Northern-Trust-Huemmer-on-Quality-Factor-ESG-Strategies-900x350.png)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Northern Trust Asset Management’s Huemmer on Quality Factor ESG Strategies and Finding the Perfect Index Partnership
Chris Huemmer, Northern Trust Asset Management’s Senior Investment Strategist, discusses his firm’s innovative ETFs tracking multi-factor, ESG and climate strategies, and the role of an index provider in wrapping up a holistic investment approach.
![STOXX SRI Indices: Target the Best ESG and Emissions Performers](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/STOXX-SRI-Indices-Target-the-Best-ESG-and-Emissions-Performers-900x350.png)
The STOXX SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) indices are part of Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions framework, which grew this year to address investors’ varied ESG needs and ambitions. The SRI indices seek to improve the ESG profile of the portfolio and lower its carbon emissions.
![Trading in STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Futures at Eurex Tops 1 Mln Contracts This Year](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ESGX-futures-AUg-2021_intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Trading in STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Futures at Eurex Tops 1 Mln Contracts This Year
The futures are the world’s most popular sustainability-focused derivatives and have seen increasing demand as investors and traders turn to ESG-compliant instruments to hedge and manage portfolios. The ESG derivatives space at Eurex has beaten records in daily and monthly traded contracts this year.
![Value of Sustainable Assets Outpaces Market Growth, Led by US Surge: GSIA Biennial Report](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/PO450-GSIA-report-2020-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Value of Sustainable Assets Outpaces Market Growth, Led by US Surge: GSIA Biennial Report
The world’s share of responsibly managed assets continued to expand in the two years through 2019, according to one of the most comprehensive industry studies. US-based ESG assets jumped 42% during the period. In Europe, sustainable assets dropped amid higher standards of what constitutes an ESG investment.
![IIA Survey Points to Continued Strong Growth for ESG Assets, Key Role for ESG Indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IIA-ESG-survey-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
IIA Survey Points to Continued Strong Growth for ESG Assets, Key Role for ESG Indices
The first annual ESG survey from the Index Industry Association (IIA) shows asset managers are preparing for sustainability principles to take a more significant role across their portfolios. It also points to significant challenges including the lack of data standardization, and says indices have a critical role to play in facilitating the adoption of ESG strategies.
![EURO STOXX 50 ESG: Exploring effect of new index methodology](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EURO-STOXX-50-ESG-JULY-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Changes to the ESG index follow a market consultation and were undertaken to keep the methodology and index aligned with evolving sustainability practices and new guidelines from regulators. A Qontigo analysis shows the new rules didn’t significantly affect the country or industry allocation of the resulting portfolio.
![BlackRock, BMW, Deutsche Börse and Qontigo Discuss ESG Dynamics in Germany](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Germany-ESG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
BlackRock, BMW, Deutsche Börse and Qontigo Discuss ESG Dynamics in Germany
BlackRock’s ‘Germany at the Sustainability Turning Point’ webinar provided a stage for a discussion around how companies and investors in Europe’s biggest market are adapting in the face of increasing ESG regulation.
![Video: How SFDR is Driving Asset Flows](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/March-2021-wrap-original-intro-900x350.jpg)
Manuela Sperandeo, BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Indexing for EMEA, and Rodolphe Bocquet, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment, discuss the current landscape for sustainable investing and the impact of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
![Three Different Flavors for a Sustainable US Equity Portfolio](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Diana-USA-500-June-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
The latest Qontigo whitepaper analyzes the risk, return and impact profile of three ESG indices tracking the STOXX® USA 500 benchmark: the STOXX® USA 500 ESG Broad Market, STOXX® USA 500 ESG Target and STOXX® USA 500 ESG Target TE. The study reveals that while performance and risk across the three ESG variants are similar to those of the parent benchmark, differences exist in the active risk and constitution of the portfolios.
![STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Options Near EUR 2 Billion in Open Interest](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Options1-intro-900x350.jpg)
The contracts are part of an expanding family of sustainability-focused listed derivatives designed to tap increasing demand as investors turn to ESG-compliant instruments to manage portfolios.