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![Impact Investing: What Is It, and How Can Investors Get It Right?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Impact-Investing-What-Is-It-and-How-Can-Investors-Get-It-Right-900x350.png)
Impact investing is growing as a means to generate positive, real-world change. But defining, measuring and standardizing it is no easy task. A joint whitepaper from Qontigo and Clarity AI looks at some of the frameworks that are taking on these challenges and helps shed light on the way forward for the strategy.
![Northern Trust Asset Management’s Huemmer on Quality Factor ESG Strategies and Finding the Perfect Index Partnership](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Interview-Northern-Trust-Huemmer-on-Quality-Factor-ESG-Strategies-900x350.png)
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Northern Trust Asset Management’s Huemmer on Quality Factor ESG Strategies and Finding the Perfect Index Partnership
Chris Huemmer, Northern Trust Asset Management’s Senior Investment Strategist, discusses his firm’s innovative ETFs tracking multi-factor, ESG and climate strategies, and the role of an index provider in wrapping up a holistic investment approach.
![STOXX SRI Indices: Target the Best ESG and Emissions Performers](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/STOXX-SRI-Indices-Target-the-Best-ESG-and-Emissions-Performers-900x350.png)
The STOXX SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) indices are part of Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions framework, which grew this year to address investors’ varied ESG needs and ambitions. The SRI indices seek to improve the ESG profile of the portfolio and lower its carbon emissions.
![On the Way to Impact Investment: Mind the Gap between Theory and Practice](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Clarity-and-Qontigo-WP-1-list.png)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
On the Way to Impact Investment: Mind the Gap between Theory and Practice
For this paper Qontigo’s Sustainable Investment Team collaborated with Clarity AI’s research team to deep dive into the theory and practice of impact investment, define the gaps and propose the reconciliation methods between the two.
![Trading in STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Futures at Eurex Tops 1 Mln Contracts This Year](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ESGX-futures-AUg-2021_intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Trading in STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Futures at Eurex Tops 1 Mln Contracts This Year
The futures are the world’s most popular sustainability-focused derivatives and have seen increasing demand as investors and traders turn to ESG-compliant instruments to hedge and manage portfolios. The ESG derivatives space at Eurex has beaten records in daily and monthly traded contracts this year.
![Monthly Index News: July 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/abstract-tech-Intro-Image-900x350.png)
Stocks rose for a sixth straight month during July, as ongoing optimism that the global economy and corporate profits are rebounding outweighed concerns about a reacceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
![Value of Sustainable Assets Outpaces Market Growth, Led by US Surge: GSIA Biennial Report](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/PO450-GSIA-report-2020-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Value of Sustainable Assets Outpaces Market Growth, Led by US Surge: GSIA Biennial Report
The world’s share of responsibly managed assets continued to expand in the two years through 2019, according to one of the most comprehensive industry studies. US-based ESG assets jumped 42% during the period. In Europe, sustainable assets dropped amid higher standards of what constitutes an ESG investment.
![IIA Survey Points to Continued Strong Growth for ESG Assets, Key Role for ESG Indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IIA-ESG-survey-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
IIA Survey Points to Continued Strong Growth for ESG Assets, Key Role for ESG Indices
The first annual ESG survey from the Index Industry Association (IIA) shows asset managers are preparing for sustainability principles to take a more significant role across their portfolios. It also points to significant challenges including the lack of data standardization, and says indices have a critical role to play in facilitating the adoption of ESG strategies.
![EURO STOXX 50 ESG: Exploring effect of new index methodology](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EURO-STOXX-50-ESG-JULY-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Changes to the ESG index follow a market consultation and were undertaken to keep the methodology and index aligned with evolving sustainability practices and new guidelines from regulators. A Qontigo analysis shows the new rules didn’t significantly affect the country or industry allocation of the resulting portfolio.
![Monthly Index News: June 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/oddsaregoodthatmarkets_intro_small-900x350.jpg)
Stocks rose for a fifth straight month during June, as ongoing optimism that the global economy is rebounding outweighed concerns about faster inflation and higher interest rates.
![BlackRock, BMW, Deutsche Börse and Qontigo Discuss ESG Dynamics in Germany](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Germany-ESG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
BlackRock, BMW, Deutsche Börse and Qontigo Discuss ESG Dynamics in Germany
BlackRock’s ‘Germany at the Sustainability Turning Point’ webinar provided a stage for a discussion around how companies and investors in Europe’s biggest market are adapting in the face of increasing ESG regulation.
![Video: How SFDR is Driving Asset Flows](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/March-2021-wrap-original-intro-900x350.jpg)
Manuela Sperandeo, BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Indexing for EMEA, and Rodolphe Bocquet, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment, discuss the current landscape for sustainable investing and the impact of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).