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![Europe’s SFDR: A challenge worth meeting](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/EU-flag-SFDR-intro-900x350.jpg)
It appears onerous and sometimes confusing, but the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) aims to enhance and protect participation in sustainable investments — a cause well worth the trouble.
![APG, BlackRock and the SDI AOP: Ways to align portfolios with the UN SDGs](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/UN_SDG-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
APG, BlackRock and the SDI AOP: Ways to align portfolios with the UN SDGs
Aligning portfolios with the UN Sustainable Development Goals is a fast-growing segment of responsible investing (RI), one with a different profile and outcome to ESG or climate considerations. A recent webinar explored how investors can employ the SDGs for portfolio management, index construction, reporting and more, using the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP).
![Ossiam’s Lacroix: Maximizing the benefits of an ESG index strategy with an equal-weight approach](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PO491-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
Ossiam’s Lacroix: Maximizing the benefits of an ESG index strategy with an equal-weight approach
We talk to Paul Lacroix, Ossiam’s Head of Structuring, about the switch of index underlying the Ossiam STOXX® Europe 600 Equal Weight NR ETF, and why an equal-weighted ESG strategy can boost both the ESG profile and price returns of a portfolio.
![An ‘impossible product’? Comparing Europe’s dissonant ESG fund labels](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ecolabels-intro-900x350.jpg)
Fund issuers seeking to design sustainable-investment products to be distributed across European markets face an uphill struggle because of widely diverging national and regional frameworks. A new Qontigo whitepaper highlights the intricacy of Europe’s ESG labeling landscape and provides some recommendations that may help overcome its pitfalls.
![Germany’s LBBW licenses DAX 50 ESG decrement index for structured products](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LBBW-intro-900x350.jpg)
The idDAX 50 ESG NR Decrement 4.0% can be used to underlie structured products offering exposure to sustainability leaders in the German equity market. The decrement mechanism allows issuers to improve the coupon or capital-protection terms offered to clients.
![Panel of experts explores challenges and possibilities of fast-growing impact investing market](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Impact-investing-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Panel of experts explores challenges and possibilities of fast-growing impact investing market
How can investors push companies to have a more positive societal impact from their products and operations? And how can that impact be measured? Responsible Investor and Qontigo host a panel of experts who discuss these topics and more.
![Flexible approach in use of ESG data is key driver in advancing sustainability indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PO485-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
Flexible approach in use of ESG data is key driver in advancing sustainability indices
Variety in ESG data can enrich investment strategies and provide an edge in performance. Qontigo’s open-architecture approach is to find and leverage the most robust sustainability information available, with no limitation to any single provider, for each investing case.
![Q&A with State Street and Qontigo: ESG ETFs evolving alongside investors’ deeper sustainability commitment](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/shutterstock_1160751550-1.jpg)
Index | Index / ETFs
Q&A with State Street and Qontigo: ESG ETFs evolving alongside investors’ deeper sustainability commitment
Rebecca Chesworth, Senior Equities Strategist at State Street Global Advisors SPDR ETFs; and Hamish Seegopaul, Head of R&D for ESG and Quantitative Indices at Qontigo, discuss the change in underlying index for the SPDR® STOXX Europe 600 ESG Screened UCITS ETF and how clients’ ESG needs are shaping the product offering.
![A Goldilocks path to achieving sustainability and impact](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/agoldilockspathtoachievingsustainabilityandimpact_intro-900x350.jpg)
Sustainable investing strategies vary. Some investors, for example, simply want to improve ESG alignment. Others seek to maximize their impact on society, by investing in those companies that contribute the most to certain goals. While the metrics that underlie these approaches have some overlap, there is not perfect correlation, in terms of how metrics are defined, how portfolios are constructed, what is being targeted, etc.
![Impact investing: a guide to quantifying companies’ societal effects through the UN SDGs](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ClarityAI-November-2021-paper-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Impact investing: a guide to quantifying companies’ societal effects through the UN SDGs
Using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework for an impact-measurement approach can help understand and quantify companies’ real-world impact, a new whitepaper from Qontigo and Clarity AI argues. Such an approach enables investors to bridge an important gap at a time when impact has emerged as a key investment pillar, right next to risk and returns.
![A view from COP26: navigating the climate transition with investable indices](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Carbon-smoke-intro2-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
A view from COP26: navigating the climate transition with investable indices
A panel at COP26 comprised of sustainability and index experts, including members of Willis Towers Watson and Qontigo, explains how the STOXX Willis Towers Watson Climate Transition Indices (CTIs) help investors manage climate-transition risk and align their investments for the economic transition to net zero.
![Panel of experts discusses the why and the how of net-zero investing](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Monaco-Fund-Forum-intro-900x350.jpg)
One of the panels at the Sustainability & Impact Investor Forum in Monaco last month drew from the perspectives of active fund management, asset-owner and indexing specialists, who discussed the key drivers and approaches to incorporate the transition to net zero into investment portfolios.