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![An ‘impossible product’? Comparing Europe’s dissonant ESG fund labels](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ecolabels-intro-900x350.jpg)
Fund issuers seeking to design sustainable-investment products to be distributed across European markets face an uphill struggle because of widely diverging national and regional frameworks. A new Qontigo whitepaper highlights the intricacy of Europe’s ESG labeling landscape and provides some recommendations that may help overcome its pitfalls.
![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.
![Qontigo licenses DAX to Kiwoom to create the first Korean-listed DAX ETF](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/abstract-building-blue-lines-sky-intro-900x350.jpg)
Qontigo announced today the licensing of the DAX Index to Kiwoom Asset Management. The index will be used as an underlying for an ETF to be listed on the Korea Stock Exchange, a first in the Korean market.
![Philips Pensioenfonds selects STOXX Responsible SDG Index](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/apg-intro-900x350.jpg)
Philips Pensioenfonds, in collaboration with analytics and index provider Qontigo and asset manager BlackRock, announces the launch of the iSTOXX® PPF Responsible SDG Index.
![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.
![Deutsche Wohnen SE joins MDAX](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SPerandeo-BlackRock-APG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. has announced changes to the DAX index family, which will become effective on 20 December 2021.
![Unscheduled adjustment in DAX – Dec. 2, 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SBT-intro-900x350.jpg)
2 December 2021 – Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. has announced an unscheduled change to the DAX index.
![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.
![Changes in composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/inflation2021blogpost_intro-900x350.png)
December 1, 2021 – Qontigo has announced the new composition of the STOXX Europe 600 Index.
![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.
![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.