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![The Best Bang for Your Climate-Aware Buck (or Pound, Euro, Yen – You Name It)](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/buck-intro-900x350.jpg)
The race to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 is on, and many investors are adopting indices with a decarbonization path to achieve their climate objectives. Our latest whitepaper looks at Paris-aligned indices covering the US and Europe and seeks to answer the following questions: in which region can investors make the most impact, and how much risk are they taking in the process?
![Taking Temperature Part 2: US Enters Climate Financial Regulation Era](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Taking-Temp-2-intro-900x350.jpg)
US policymakers have in recent months stepped up efforts to address climate risk in financial markets. During a webinar organized by Responsible Investor, a panel of experts from 2° Investing Ventures, ISS ESG, New York Department of Financial Services, PRI and Qontigo, discussed these moves and explored some of the directions US climate regulation may take.
![New Qontigo Study Looks into Expanding Landscape of Forward-looking Climate Metrics](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/FLCMs-2nd-try-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
New Qontigo Study Looks into Expanding Landscape of Forward-looking Climate Metrics
A new whitepaper from Qontigo’s Sustainable Investment team is a primer to understanding and untangling the multiple — and often confusing — climate data alternatives that have emerged in recent years.
![DAX ESG Target: An optimal solution to risk, return and impact in German stocks](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PO437-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
DAX ESG Target: An optimal solution to risk, return and impact in German stocks
The new DAX® ESG Target Index offers a sustainable alternative to Germany’s flagship DAX that is optimized to maximize the ESG score of the portfolio, with a tracking-error constraint, and that simultaneously reduces the carbon intensity by at least 30%.
![Beyond ESG: From ‘How Does Sustainability Affect My Portfolio’ to ‘How Does My Portfolio Affect the World?’](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Beyond-ESG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Beyond ESG: From ‘How Does Sustainability Affect My Portfolio’ to ‘How Does My Portfolio Affect the World?’
ESG integration, sustainability, and impact investing…While there may be overlap in the meanings of these terms, they each represent a distinct approach to “doing well while doing good” in investor portfolios.
![BlackRock’s Sperandeo: How We Engage with Qontigo to Help Investors Prepare their Portfolios for a Net-Zero World](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Net-Zero-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
BlackRock’s Sperandeo: How We Engage with Qontigo to Help Investors Prepare their Portfolios for a Net-Zero World
Manuela Sperandeo, BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Indexing for EMEA, explains why the world’s largest asset manager has placed sustainability as its new standard for investing, and how working with an index provider helps it best serve its clients’ responsible-investing goals.
![Science-Based Targets – A Key Piece in the Climate-Alignment Puzzle](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SBT-intro-900x350.jpg)
Science-based emissions-reduction targets (SBTs) help verify that a company has embarked on a pathway to reduce its carbon footprint and get aligned with climate action efforts. The inclusion of SBTs in indices provides an efficient solution to investors wishing to adopt a responsible approach in the face of the global warming crisis.
![Qontigo’s ‘Enhance’ sustainable index category – optimizing ESG investing](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Enhance-ESG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s ‘Enhance’ sustainable index category – optimizing ESG investing
In this post, we explore the second category in Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions: our ‘Enhance’ ESG offering. The category is made up of STOXX and DAX indices that aim to maximize the sustainability profile of portfolios, given investors’ needs to balance risk, return and ESG integration.
![Qontigo’s ‘Exclude’ Sustainable Index Category – An Efficient Starting Point to ESG Investments](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PO430-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s ‘Exclude’ Sustainable Index Category – An Efficient Starting Point to ESG Investments
We look at the STOXX index families that make up the first category in Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions. Our ‘Exclude’ category – consisting of the STOXX ESG-X, ESG Broad Market and ESG blue-chip indices – helps investors incorporate a varied degree of responsible engagement and risk mitigation into portfolios.
![Sustainability Impact of Investments Calls for Redefined View of Asset Management, Says Qontigo’s Bocquet](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rodolphe-Sustainable-Forum-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Sustainability Impact of Investments Calls for Redefined View of Asset Management, Says Qontigo’s Bocquet
The growth of ESG impact as a fundamental variable in investing means investors need to reconsider where their portfolios’ new efficient frontier lies, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment says during a panel at the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2021.
![Raising Your Responsible Investment Strategy? Explore Qontigo´s Expanded STOXX Sustainability Index Solutions](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ESG-Ecosystem-1-original-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Raising Your Responsible Investment Strategy? Explore Qontigo´s Expanded STOXX Sustainability Index Solutions
Our comprehensive and flexible STOXX ESG indices range has grown to address investors’ varied sustainability needs and ambitions. Thanks to an open-architecture platform that integrates the best available ESG data, Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions provide the transparent and robust index characteristics you need to optimize your portfolio’s impact.
![Qontigo’s Bocquet: Both Standardization and Customization are Equally Needed in the ESG Adoption Journey](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Test-Eurex-ESG-Rodolphe-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s Bocquet: Both Standardization and Customization are Equally Needed in the ESG Adoption Journey
Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment spoke at the Eurex Derivatives Forum Frankfurt 2021, where he discussed the need to set clear frameworks in ESG investing and provide customized sustainable solutions for investors.