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![Asset-owner panel discusses drivers, merits of integrating SDGs into investment portfolios](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO579-1-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Asset-owner panel discusses drivers, merits of integrating SDGs into investment portfolios
The exchange during a recent Savvy Investor webinar centered around ways to measure companies’ contribution towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and use those metrics in investment processes.
![Porsche, Daimler Truck, Siemens Energy among companies joining DAX ESG indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO593-intro-900x350.jpg)
Changes were announced as part of the March regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.
![STOXX Global 1800 index drops in February; European stocks buck trend](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO588-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX Global 1800 index fell 2.3% in dollars but climbed 0.1% in euros in February. Better-than-expected US economic reports in the month raised concerns that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates further and for longer.
![Qontigo expands STOXX multifactor indices for iShares ETFs by BlackRock](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO525-2nd-intro-900x350.jpg)
Four new indices have been added to the STOXX Equity Factor suite, which offers diversified multifactor exposure to five equity style risk premia sources. Powered by STOXX’s indexing capabilities and Axioma’s risk models and portfolio optimizer, the indices deliver balanced and well-researched factor exposures, seeking long-term outperformance.
![Why have emerging markets become less risky than their developed counterparts?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/EM3-intro-900x350.jpg)
Since late 2021, the STOXX Emerging Markets 1500 index has shown lower forecast and realized volatility than the STOXX Global 1800, a benchmark for developed economies. Using Axioma’s Factor Risk Models, a new whitepaper from Qontigo’s Applied Research team investigates the drivers of this anomaly.
![Infrastructure: a portfolio’s barrier against inflation](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PO587-intro-900x350.jpg)
Using Axioma’s Macroeconomic Projection Model, we decompose the risk factors that drove returns in the STOXX Global Broad Infrastructure between 2020 and 2022. The results show the index had a positive exposure to the risk model’s inflation factors, meaning it stood to benefit from rising global inflation expectations.
![Stocks jump in January; European, value indices lead gains](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PO583-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX Global 1800 index rose 7% in dollars and 5.1% in euros last month, amid expectations that inflation worldwide may have peaked and that any recession in key developed economies may be mild.
![Multi-factor investing with iShares ETFs and STOXX Indices by Qontigo](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PO529-intro-900x350.jpg)
In the current environment of rising inflation, interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty iShares relaunched two ETFs in its factor suite (LRGF and INTF), using a multifactor strategy from index provider Qontigo.
![Linde to be removed from Germany’s DAX benchmark, STOXX indices on Feb. 27](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO581-intro-900x350.jpg)
The largest constituent of Germany’s equity benchmark has announced it plans to delist its shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A replacement in DAX and STOXX indices will be announced on Feb. 17.
![The Metaverse: investing at the new digital frontier](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO580-intro-900x350.jpg)
The recently launched STOXX Global Metaverse Index uses a sophisticated methodology to screen those companies with the most relevant patents in technologies associated with the Metaverse. This allows investors to target innovators whose products and services are likely to be leading the transition to the virtual world in the coming years. A new Qontigo whitepaper explores the index in detail.
![Qontigo’s Axel Lomholt: STOXX World indices bring flexible portfolio building blocks to growing client base](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/STOXX-World-Puzzle-Intro-Image-900x350.jpg)
Index | Benchmarks
Qontigo’s Axel Lomholt: STOXX World indices bring flexible portfolio building blocks to growing client base
Qontigo has introduced the STOXX® World indices, a modular suite that allows investors to flexibly build portfolios covering a broad and liquid universe of markets.
![Mapping companies’ contributions to sustainability goals: Quantifying alignment with investment themes](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO577-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Mapping companies’ contributions to sustainability goals: Quantifying alignment with investment themes
The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) helps investors assess companies’ contributions to sustainability themes using the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The asset owner-led effort provides a robust SDG-alignment framework and data, and is already used worldwide by investors for implementation and tracking of sustainability strategies, and engagement with multiple stakeholders.