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![Sustainable investment fund labeling frameworks: An apples-to-apples comparison](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sustainable-investment-frameworks-wp-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Sustainable investment fund labeling frameworks: An apples-to-apples comparison
The list of sustainable investment (SI) frameworks guiding portfolio design is long and keeps growing. Rarely a day goes by without intense discussion of some or all of them, and their often-conflicting implications for fund design. The authors of this paper aim to contribute towards this intensifying debate by examining in detail (as of October 2021) the criteria used in the 12 most important European pieces of legislation, country-specific fund labels and other standards guiding SI product design.
![Monthly Index News: December 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/blue-chart-volatility-intro-900x350.jpg)
Stocks rose in December and wrapped their third consecutive year of double-digit gains, as fears of economic disruption stemming from the Omicron coronavirus variant abated.
![Germany’s LBBW licenses DAX 50 ESG decrement index for structured products](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LBBW-intro-900x350.jpg)
The idDAX 50 ESG NR Decrement 4.0% can be used to underlie structured products offering exposure to sustainability leaders in the German equity market. The decrement mechanism allows issuers to improve the coupon or capital-protection terms offered to clients.
![Panel of experts explores challenges and possibilities of fast-growing impact investing market](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Impact-investing-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Panel of experts explores challenges and possibilities of fast-growing impact investing market
How can investors push companies to have a more positive societal impact from their products and operations? And how can that impact be measured? Responsible Investor and Qontigo host a panel of experts who discuss these topics and more.
![Flexible approach in use of ESG data is key driver in advancing sustainability indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PO485-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
Flexible approach in use of ESG data is key driver in advancing sustainability indices
Variety in ESG data can enrich investment strategies and provide an edge in performance. Qontigo’s open-architecture approach is to find and leverage the most robust sustainability information available, with no limitation to any single provider, for each investing case.
![Monthly Index News: November 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mac_06042021_intro-900x350.png)
Stocks fell in November, with indices reverting gains in the month’s last three sessions, as the emergence of the Omicron variant raised concerns the COVID-19 pandemic may continue to undermine the global economy.
![Q&A with State Street and Qontigo: ESG ETFs evolving alongside investors’ deeper sustainability commitment](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_1160751550-1.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
Q&A with State Street and Qontigo: ESG ETFs evolving alongside investors’ deeper sustainability commitment
Rebecca Chesworth, Senior Equities Strategist at State Street Global Advisors SPDR ETFs; and Hamish Seegopaul, Head of R&D for ESG and Quantitative Indices at Qontigo, discuss the change in underlying index for the SPDR® STOXX Europe 600 ESG Screened UCITS ETF and how clients’ ESG needs are shaping the product offering.
![A Goldilocks path to achieving sustainability and impact](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/agoldilockspathtoachievingsustainabilityandimpact_intro-900x350.jpg)
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.
![Impact investing: a guide to quantifying companies’ societal effects through the UN SDGs](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ClarityAI-November-2021-paper-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Impact investing: a guide to quantifying companies’ societal effects through the UN SDGs
Using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for an impact-measurement approach can help understand and quantify companies’ real-world impact, a new whitepaper from Qontigo and Clarity AI argues. Such an approach enables investors to bridge an important gap at a time when impact has emerged as a key investment pillar, right next to risk and returns.
![Quantifying corporate societal impact using United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Clarity-and-Qontigo-WP-1-list.png)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Quantifying corporate societal impact using United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
This is the second in a series of Qontigo and Clarity AI research papers, which focuses on the challenge of measuring impact as a key means of bridging the gap between impact investment theory and practice.
![A view from COP26: navigating the climate transition with investable indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Carbon-smoke-intro2-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
A view from COP26: navigating the climate transition with investable indices
A panel at COP26 comprised of sustainability and index experts, including members of Willis Towers Watson and Qontigo, explains how the STOXX Willis Towers Watson Climate Transition Indices (CTIs) help investors manage climate-transition risk and align their investments for the economic transition to net zero.
![Panel of experts discusses the why and the how of net-zero investing](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Monaco-Fund-Forum-intro-900x350.jpg)
One of the panels at the Sustainability & Impact Investor Forum in Monaco last month drew from the perspectives of active fund management, asset-owner and indexing specialists, who discussed the key drivers and approaches to incorporate the transition to net zero into investment portfolios.