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The outstanding growth of responsible investing will reach a new milestone next week, when investors will be able to trade European options tracking environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies for the first time. 

The STOXX® Minimum Variance Indices are designed to achieve the lowest return volatility in a given investable universe.

Due to the acquisition of shares in the context of an attempted takeover of Osram Licht AG by AMS AG the free float of Osram Licht AG changed by more than 10 percentage points.

With US demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies on the rise, it is timely to look at the recent performance of the STOXX® USA 500 ESG-X Index. 

In this paper, we take a look at how minimum variance performed vis-à-vis its core market counterpart during nine recent geopolitical risk events. The nature of these events is that they tend to push correlations towards 1.0.

Earlier in the year, STOXX introduced the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index, a second-generation environmental, social and governance (ESG) version of the iconic EURO STOXX 50® Index that follows standard investment exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection.   

The STOXX® Global 1800 Index rose 2.1% in dollar terms1 during the month, following a 1.8% drop in August, wrapping a 0.7% advance in the third quarter.

Stocks rebounded in September amid hopes for a thaw in the trade war between the US and China and as the world’s major central banks lowered interest rates to support faltering economic growth.

STOXX hopes to see derivatives of its thematic ESG “Global Cities of Tomorrow Select 30″ index” listed on sister company Eurex’s exchange.

Earlier this year, STOXX introduced the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index, a ESG version of the iconic EURO STOXX 50® that follows standard responsible investment exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection.

Qontigo’s global index provider STOXX Ltd. has licensed the iSTOXX® Global Cities of Tomorrow Select 30 Index to Citi to serve as an underlying for structured products.

Following a small contraction in Germany’s economy in the second quarter, many economists predict that this quarter the country will enter its first official recession in six years.