News & Research

Qontigo has licensed the DAX® 50 ESG Index to Lyxor Asset Management to serve as an underlying for an ETF. The ETF was listed today and is available for trading on Xetra and via Börse Frankfurt.

Qontigo has licensed the new DAX® 50 ESG Index to Lyxor Asset Management as an underlying for an exchange-traded fund that was listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today.

The DAX® 50 ESG Index is the flagship index for sustainable equity investments in Germany and the most recent addition to the DAX® index offerings. The DAX® 50 ESG tracks the performance of a diversified portfolio of 50 largest, most liquid eligible German market stocks screened for Global Standards Screening, involvement in controversial weapons, tobacco, thermal coal, nuclear power and military contracting.

On April 15, 2020, Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX and TecDAX indices.

Qontigo has launched a new market benchmark targeting companies “addressing the rising obesity levels in the global population” that are also set to benefits from health trends among millennials.

Three new indices tracking the modern trends of pet care, video gaming and the fight against obesity are the latest addition to a thematics family that seeks to capture long-term growth.

Qontigo has expanded its suite of innovative thematic indices by two new concepts: online gaming and the fight against obesity.

The STOXX Global 1800 Index slumps 13% in month, paring an earlier drop of as much as 25%, as large parts of the global economy come to a standstill to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have expanded our Monthly Index News Report to include the new STOXX Factor Indices and add recently launched thematic indices. There is now also a section covering the flagship DAX indices.

On Monday Mar. 30, 2020, Qontigo announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX index.

Qontigo’s index provider STOXX was named Best European Index Provider at this year’s ETF Express Awards. This year’s award marks the tenth time that STOXX has been selected as an ETF Express winner.

Concerns about a sharp economic downturn coupled with tumbling oil prices send European indices to their first 20% decline since 2016.