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![Video: Upcoming elections and market volatility. What is the VSTOXX index telling us?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2247042159_Listing_900x350.jpg)
Asset TV caught up with Hamish Seegopaul, Global Head of Index Product Innovation at STOXX; and Zubin Ramdarshan, Head of Equity & Index Product Design at Eurex, to understand just how VSTOXX and its derivatives work. They were joined by Yangyang Hou, Executive Director for Global Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy at JP Morgan, who explained how investors and traders are using VSTOXX futures and options in a market with plenty of sources of potential risk.
![What’s in a sustainability fund name? In Europe, increasing rigor](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/stoxx_perspectives_2_900x350.jpg)
As the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) tightens guidelines on fund names to mitigate greenwashing risks, fund managers face new challenges. In our latest report, we explore the implications of ESMA’s new rules on the use of terms like “ESG” and “sustainable” in fund names, and how these changes may impact both investment strategies and marketing practices.
![ISS STOXX indices use comprehensive framework to help investors address biodiversity challenges](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1337691431_900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
ISS STOXX indices use comprehensive framework to help investors address biodiversity challenges
The fight to preserve our nature’s systems is intensifying, presenting both additional risks and opportunities for investors. The ISS STOXX Biodiversity indices offer a multi-step framework to address biodiversity challenges while employing state-of-the-art datasets.
![New STOXX Optimal 100 indices offer optimized replication strategies on benchmark portfolios](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO685-listing.jpg)
Index | New index launches
New STOXX Optimal 100 indices offer optimized replication strategies on benchmark portfolios
The STOXX Optimal 100 indices mirror their parent indices with a smaller constituency. In controlling tracking error and active exposures through an optimization process, the new indices offer a tool for efficient hedging of benchmark portfolios.
![Eurex launches STOXX Europe 600 index weekly options](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO684-listing.jpg)
Weekly expirations allow market participants to finetune hedging and accurately implement strategies around specific events such as economic data releases. The new options further expand a comprehensive derivatives ecosystem around the STOXX Europe 600.
![A thematic approach to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO689-listing.jpg)
Nvidia’s formidable stock performance has lifted the company atop many indices. Thematic strategies can offer a more nuanced, and larger, exposure to the chipmaker’s shares.
![Exploring SDAX, the benchmark for German small companies](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SDAX_25Years_900x350_v3.jpg)
As the index turns 25 on June 21, we take a look at what makes up the world of smaller-capitalization German stocks.
![STOXX extends EURO STOXX 50 ESG offering with dividend points index](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO679-listing.jpg)
The DVP index tracks the gross cash dividends paid out in a year by constituents of the Eurozone’s sustainability benchmark. Dividend futures on the standard EURO STOXX 50 benchmark are a popular contract on Eurex both for hedging and directional strategies.
![Unscheduled component changes in MDAX and TecDAX](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/chart-volatility-neutral-intro-900x350.jpg)
STOXX Ltd. has announced unscheduled component changes in the MDAX and TecDAX indices.
![European ETFs reach USD 2tn in assets, doubling in four years](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PO687-listing.jpg)
Buoyant markets and the ongoing shift to index investments put European ETFs on track for a tenth straight year of net inflows. Funds tracking the EURO STOXX 50 attracted USD 2bn in the first five months of 2024.
![STOXX Europe 600 index – The continent’s benchmark](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/STOXXEurope600_26Years_900x350.png)
The STOXX Europe 600 turned 26 this month, a lifetime during which the index has become a trusted barometer for the region’s equities. Used widely for the benchmarking of funds, the index is also the center of a growing ecosystem of investment products.
![Unscheduled component change in SDAX](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/buildingsmartbetastrategiesforchinaasharesusingthenewaxcn4chinaequityriskmodel_intro-e1600865759513-900x350.jpg)
STOXX Ltd. has announced an unscheduled component change in the SDAX index.