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![Q&A: Building customized, sustainable portfolios based on the STOXX World indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/shutterstock_2180019465_900x350.jpg)
Index | Benchmarks
Q&A: Building customized, sustainable portfolios based on the STOXX World indices
The modular STOXX World indices allow investors to flexibly build portfolios covering a broad and liquid universe of stocks, slicing and dicing the world’s equity markets along regions, countries, market capitalization and sectors.
![Asset-owner panel discusses drivers, merits of integrating SDGs into investment portfolios](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO579-1-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Asset-owner panel discusses drivers, merits of integrating SDGs into investment portfolios
The exchange during a recent Savvy Investor webinar centered around ways to measure companies’ contribution towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and use those metrics in investment processes.
![Porsche, Daimler Truck, Siemens Energy among companies joining DAX ESG indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO593-intro-900x350.jpg)
Changes were announced as part of the March regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.
![Monthly Index News: February 2023](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/erm_10282021_intro-900x350.jpg)
US and Asian stocks fell in February, as better-than-expected economic reports in the US signaled the Federal Reserve has room to continue raising interest rates. European shares climbed when measured in euros.
![Monthly Index News: January 2023](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/gamestopexposesthegame_intro-900x350.png)
Stocks jumped in January as expectations built up that inflation worldwide may have peaked and that any recession in key developed economies may be mild.
![Mapping companies’ contributions to sustainability goals: Quantifying alignment with investment themes](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO577-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Mapping companies’ contributions to sustainability goals: Quantifying alignment with investment themes
The Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP) helps investors assess companies’ contributions to sustainability themes using the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The asset owner-led effort provides a robust SDG-alignment framework and data, and is already used worldwide by investors for implementation and tracking of sustainability strategies, and engagement with multiple stakeholders.
![STOXX WTW Climate Transition Indices: Replacing decarbonized portfolios with portfolios for a decarbonized world](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO576-original-2-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
STOXX WTW Climate Transition Indices: Replacing decarbonized portfolios with portfolios for a decarbonized world
At an IPE webinar last month, experts from WTW and Qontigo explained how the STOXX Willis Towers Watson Climate Transition Indices (CTIs) can help investors manage climate transition risk on a forward-looking basis. The audience also heard how this can be achieved without increasing a portfolio’s overall risk.
![Monthly Index News: December 2022](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/mac_10292021_intro-900x350.jpg)
Stocks declined in December, wrapping the STOXX® Global 1800 index’s worst year since 2008, as investor concerns lingered about the impact of inflation and higher interest rates on economic and earnings growth.
![Searching for the sustainability north star](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PO575-2nd-version-intro-900x350.jpg)
SFDR Level 2 standards come into effect in 2023. Antonio Celeste and Saumya Mehrotra from Qontigo’s Sustainability Product Management team look into the concept of ‘Sustainable Investment’ and discuss how to measure and approach such investments.
![The time is ripe for investors in China to embrace a green financial system](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PO572-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
The time is ripe for investors in China to embrace a green financial system
Following a push from local authorities and significant evolution in ESG data disclosure, investors can now access reliable corporate information and invest in Chinese companies leading in sustainability.
![World, investors gear up action to combat biodiversity loss and related risks](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PO573-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
World, investors gear up action to combat biodiversity loss and related risks
This month’s UN COP15 biodiversity summit will accelerate the discussion around nature loss and advance the notion that mismanagement of investment portfolios’ biodiversity impact entails risks. On a positive note, innovation in datasets now allow the integration of biodiversity metrics in investment strategies and indices, opening the possibility of similar progress in this field as has occurred in recent years with climate action.