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Index | ESG & Sustainability
Practitioners’ panel discusses growth of exchange-traded ESG derivatives, outlook for next generation of solutions
A webinar organized by Risk.net and Eurex addressed the surge in interest in ESG derivatives and explored what lies ahead for the market amid increasing regulation and continued improvements in data and index design.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
BlackRock’s Sperandeo on responsible investing — and how indices can help make active decisions and measure impact
Manuela Sperandeo, BlackRock’s EMEA Head of Sustainable Indexing, discusses her firm’s investment mandate tracking the iSTOXX APG World Responsible Low-Carbon SDI Index, and explains how using indices can enhance transparency, efficiency and predictability in the construction process of a climate-aware and sustainable portfolio.
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.
The contracts are part of an expanding family of sustainability-focused listed derivatives designed to tap increasing demand as investors turn to ESG-compliant instruments to manage portfolios.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Beyond ESG: From ‘How Does Sustainability Affect My Portfolio’ to ‘How Does My Portfolio Affect the World?’
ESG integration, sustainability, and impact investing…While there may be overlap in the meanings of these terms, they each represent a distinct approach to “doing well while doing good” in investor portfolios.
The offering breaks fresh ground in indexing and brings a smart and robust strategy to enhance structured products at a time when the implied dividends market has challenged the industry. The indices, which have been exclusively licensed to Citi, enable the structured-product issuer to remove any single-name dividend risk from their books and deliver more attractive product terms to clients and end investors.
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.
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.
Lyxor this week celebrates 20 years since the launch of the EURO STOXX 50 UCITS ETF. To mark this anniversary, we caught up with Lyxor’s Arnaud Llinas, Head of ETF and Indexing, and Stephan Flaegel, Head of Indices and Benchmarks at Qontigo, to hear from them how indices and ETFs have underpinned a revolution that has transformed Europe’s financial landscape.
It appears onerous and sometimes confusing, but the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) that kicked in this week aims to enhance and protect participation in sustainable investments — a cause well worth the trouble.
Index | Benchmarks
Chinese New Year Ushers in Celebration; Investors Have Plenty of Reasons to Join in
As a New Year starts, investors in China can this year add rising markets and a growing economy to the list of things to be optimistic about.
Corporate | Index | ESG & Sustainability
Qontigo Summit Addresses Ascent of Sustainability in Investments, Need to Optimize Impact
Sustainability has moved from a tangential consideration to a crucial criterion in portfolio construction. A line-up of experts told this year’s Qontigo Investment Intelligence Summit how this evolution is re-shaping the entire investment landscape.