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![BlackRock’s Sperandeo: How We Engage with Qontigo to Help Investors Prepare their Portfolios for a Net-Zero World](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Net-Zero-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
BlackRock’s Sperandeo: How We Engage with Qontigo to Help Investors Prepare their Portfolios for a Net-Zero World
Manuela Sperandeo, BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Indexing for EMEA, explains why the world’s largest asset manager has placed sustainability as its new standard for investing, and how working with an index provider helps it best serve its clients’ responsible-investing goals.
![DAX ESG Target Index selected as underlying index for a new iShares ETF](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/deutsche-boerse-intro-image-900x350.png)
Qontigo has licensed the DAX® ESG Target Index to BlackRock for the launch of a new German-domiciled iShares ETF.
![DAX® 50 ESG Index to underlie ETF by Credit Suisse Asset Management](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Israel-Low-Carbon-intro-900x350.jpg)
Qontigo has licensed the DAX® 50 ESG Index to Credit Suisse Asset Management to serve as an underlying for an ETF.
![Science-Based Targets – A Key Piece in the Climate-Alignment Puzzle](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SBT-intro-900x350.jpg)
Science-based emissions-reduction targets (SBTs) help verify that a company has embarked on a pathway to reduce its carbon footprint and get aligned with climate action efforts. The inclusion of SBTs in indices provides an efficient solution to investors wishing to adopt a responsible approach in the face of the global warming crisis.
![Stock Rally Continues in April as STOXX Global 1800 Breaks Record](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/April-2021-market-wrap-original-intro-900x350.jpg)
Global index rises 4.5% in month amid ongoing expectations for a post-pandemic economic recovery. Gains are led by US and European markets, and by Momentum stocks, which came back in favor after a lackluster first quarter.
![Unscheduled adjustment in SDAX – 5 May, 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Market-wrap-Oct2020-intro-900x350.jpg)
On Wednesday, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX Index.
![Qontigo’s ‘Enhance’ sustainable index category – optimizing ESG investing](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Enhance-ESG-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s ‘Enhance’ sustainable index category – optimizing ESG investing
In this post, we explore the second category in Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions: our ‘Enhance’ ESG offering. The category is made up of STOXX and DAX indices that aim to maximize the sustainability profile of portfolios, given investors’ needs to balance risk, return and ESG integration.
![Monthly Index News: April 2021](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sectorrotationjustonpauseorahintofthenewnormal_intro_small-900x350.jpg)
Stocks rose for a third straight month in April, with the STOXX® Global 1800 Index breaking an all-time high, as investors became more convinced that a post-pandemic economic recovery will take hold.
![KB Asset Management licenses EURO STOXX 50 Index for new ETF](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/etfexpresslogo_intro-900x350.png)
Qontigo has licensed the EURO STOXX 50 Index to KBSTAR ETF, the ETF division of KB Asset Management, to serve as an underlying for an ETF listed on the Korea Exchange.
![EURO STOXX 50 Index licensed to KB Asset Management](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/euro-stoxx-intro-image-900x350.png)
Qontigo has licensed the EURO STOXX 50® Index to KBSTAR ETF, the ETF division of KB Asset Management to serve as an underlying for an ETF listed on the Korea Exchange.
![Qontigo’s ‘Exclude’ Sustainable Index Category – An Efficient Starting Point to ESG Investments](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PO430-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo’s ‘Exclude’ Sustainable Index Category – An Efficient Starting Point to ESG Investments
We look at the STOXX index families that make up the first category in Qontigo’s index-based sustainability solutions. Our ‘Exclude’ category – consisting of the STOXX ESG-X, ESG Broad Market and ESG blue-chip indices – helps investors incorporate a varied degree of responsible engagement and risk mitigation into portfolios.
![Sustainability Impact of Investments Calls for Redefined View of Asset Management, Says Qontigo’s Bocquet](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rodolphe-Sustainable-Forum-2021-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Sustainability Impact of Investments Calls for Redefined View of Asset Management, Says Qontigo’s Bocquet
The growth of ESG impact as a fundamental variable in investing means investors need to reconsider where their portfolios’ new efficient frontier lies, Qontigo’s Global Head of Sustainable Investment says during a panel at the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2021.