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![What’s in a name: The ESG edition](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Buildings_Solar_900x350.png)
In this paper, our goal is to show how sustainability ETF exposures to a number of sustainability-related factors may vary. It is eminently clear to us that investors with a view about key sustainability features cannot rely on the fund name, but instead need to do more digging into whether their fund meets the required criteria.
![With hundreds of billions pouring in, ESG funds focus mainly on ‘E’. So what about ‘S’and ‘G’?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Seeking_Alpha_900x350.png)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
With hundreds of billions pouring in, ESG funds focus mainly on ‘E’. So what about ‘S’and ‘G’?
Qontigo noted in a research report that as of August, 346B euros were invested in passive ESG ETFs listed across the world. Of that figure, 53% went towards general ESG funds, while 45% of the flows were allocated towards environmental ETFs.
![iSTOXX APG World Responsible Indices: significant sustainability with low active risk](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PO561-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
iSTOXX APG World Responsible Indices: significant sustainability with low active risk
This article aims to provide an update on the responsible-investing characteristics of the iSTOXX APG World Responsible Indices, and reaffirm that the process continues to create indices with substantial improvement in sustainability criteria without straying too much from the parent benchmark.
![Qontigo data shows extent of climate strategies’ dominance in ESG passive ETFs space](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PO556-ESG-flows_intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo data shows extent of climate strategies’ dominance in ESG passive ETFs space
While ETF strategies focusing on the environment and general ESG have captured 39 billion euros this year, little to no money has gone to funds targeting principally social and governance issues, according to data from Qontigo’s Market Intelligence Team.
![Qontigo’s Mehrotra: Innovation cutting across entire ESG data spectrum — from sources to uses](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PO558-climate-week-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s Mehrotra: Innovation cutting across entire ESG data spectrum — from sources to uses
Saumya Mehrotra from Qontigo’s Sustainable Investment team joined a panel of experts during the recent Sustainable Investment Forum North America in New York, to discuss how ESG data and applications are evolving. In her words, while sustainability information is becoming more specialized, so are investors’ approaches to it.
![Video: Saumya Mehrotra speaks about Qontigo’s role in our clients’ journey to sustainable integration](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/green-trees-office-building-park-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Video: Saumya Mehrotra speaks about Qontigo’s role in our clients’ journey to sustainable integration
At the Sustainable Investment Forum North America 2022, Saumya Mehrotra, Associate Principal, Sustainable Investment shares how the combination of our open ESG data and architecture, index platform and analytic capabilities enable our clients on their journey to full sustainability integration.
![Stocks extend rout in September as central banks tighten monetary policy further](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/PO557-March-2022-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX Global 1800 index dropped 9.3% in dollars last month, taking its retreat in 2022 to 25.5%. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England increased the cost of borrowing in the month, with the first two hiking by a larger-than-average 75 basis points.
![Monthly Index News: September 2022](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/blog_generating-alpha-with-active-tax-management_vfinal_intro-900x350.png)
In September, stocks suffered the worst monthly selloff since March 2020, with the STOXX® Global 1800 index erasing all of its gains from the northern hemisphere’s summer, as central banks around the world pushed ahead with more interest-rate hikes.
![BlackRock and Qontigo’s collaboration: iShares multi-factor ETFs track STOXX indices to deliver consistent, risk-managed exposure for a portfolio’s core](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PO534-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Factor Investing
BlackRock and Qontigo’s collaboration: iShares multi-factor ETFs track STOXX indices to deliver consistent, risk-managed exposure for a portfolio’s core
Lukas Smart, Head of US iShares Sustainable and Factors Product Segments, and Arun Singhal, Qontigo’s Global Head of Index Product Management, discuss the recent update to BlackRock’s multi-factor offering and the outlook for factor investing.
![New thematic futures improve trading and risk management in growing investment space — Q&A with Eurex and Qontigo](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PO553-thematic-future-3rd-option-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Thematic Investing
New thematic futures improve trading and risk management in growing investment space — Q&A with Eurex and Qontigo
We caught up with Zubin Ramdarshan, Head of Equity & Index Product Design at Eurex, and Yang Wang, Head of Thematic Index R&D at Qontigo, to learn more about the first-ever listing of thematics derivatives at the Frankfurt-based exchange.
![The buy side, the changing nature of buy vs. build, and how fintech has evolved](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/waterstechnology-logo.png)
Neal Pawar, the former CTO of AQR and current COO of Qontigo, chats with Anthony Malakian about some of the major trends that are changing how asset managers interact with the vendor community, and how this shift mirrors the most significant evolutions in capital markets technology over the last decade.
![New STOXX Global ESG Leaders index constituents announced](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/PO554-intro-900x350.jpg)
The outcome of the STOXX Global ESG Leaders’ annual review is out. Qontigo’s broadest benchmark tracking the highest ESG-scoring companies now comprises 425 constituents: 280 from Europe, 79 from North America and 66 from Asia/Pacific.