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![2018 Seen as Another Record Year for Asia ETFs](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/asia-street-intro-image-900x350.jpg)
Money flowing into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Asia is expected to continue unabated in 2018, as the growing popularity for the low-fee products pushes assets to new records.
![Volatility Makes a Comeback: February Market Review](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/waves-intro-image-900x350.jpg)
Volatility returned to markets in February, whiplashing investors accustomed to a long stretch of solid and stable returns, and causing the worst monthly performance in two years for global equities.
![ETF managers step up focus on ESG stewardship](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/office-builidng-intro-image-900x350.png)
Recently, the world’s largest asset managers of index-based funds have stepped up their stewardship role, pledging more active participation to assure that board decisions are aligned with ESG principles.
![Low-Volatility Stocks and the Return of Market Stress](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/roller-coaster-intro-image-900x350.png)
The violent market pullbacks that many traders had gotten used to living without are back. The STOXX® Global 1800 Index plunged 7.5%1 between Feb. 2 and Feb. 8, its steepest five-day decline since August 2015.
![Using AI in Index Creation: Gaining True Insight from Big Data](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/abstract-tech-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
The McKinsey Global Institute writes that ‘artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to unleash the next wave of digital disruption.’
![Equities’ Bull Run Picks Up in January](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/race-track-intro-image-900x350.png)
Rather than slow down, the record-breaking rally in global equities accelerated in the first month of 2018, with little clouding investors’ increasing conviction that the world economy is on firm footing.
![The Economic Impact of Artificial Intelligence](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/office-buildings-intro-image-900x350.png)
Much of the media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) has been focusing, rightly so, on the fantastic new possibilities enabled by empowered, human-like computers.
![Outlook 2018 IV: the Road to Wider ESG Integration](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nature-lake-intro-image-900x350.jpg)
Somehow ironically, in the year when President Trump announced the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on global warming, more investors turned to climate-aware strategies, helping them outperform.
![First AI-Driven Index Tracking Artificial Intelligence Innovators](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/abstract-tech-intro-image-2_small-900x350.jpg)
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has penetrated most industries and services, with machines now handling an increasing number of tasks that only humans could once do.
![Advancements in AI Open up New Investment Frontiers](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/office-buildings-intro-image-2-900x350.png)
While we tend to think of artificial intelligence (AI) as the future, the truth is the technology has already transformed asset managers’ core business beyond recognition.
![2018 Outlook III: Thematic Investing and Infrastructure](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dam-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
As we reviewed the outlook for equity markets in 2018 in a recent article, UBS highlighted the disruptive trends of digitalization and robotics in its forecast, pointing out that technology stocks may continue their march higher.
![Smart Beta versus Dumb Alpha](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20180117_olivier_webinar_restricted_hands_v4-1-900x350.jpg)
In “An Aussie sense of style”, Axioma’s latest paper on smart beta products, we take a look at the inherent compromise between delivering target factor purity versus maximizing factor exposure.