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Ever since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, volatility has become a critical aspect for investors to consider in their portfolios.
More asset owners and managers joined the ranks of those divesting from tobacco and coal-related stocks in the year that ends, cementing a trend that is likely to intensify in coming years.
Doxing, hacking, bugging, phishing. The world of digital communications has opened up a long list of modern threats, and companies are reacting to fend them off.
Last October, STOXX Ltd. licensed the STOXX® Global Fintech Index to Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management as an underlying for an investment fund.
The launch of the DAX® Equal Weight Index this month presents a good opportunity to review the virtues of an equal-weight equity strategy.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index tracks 600 of the most liquid, large-, mid- and small-cap companies across 17 generally developed market countries. (The Czech Republic, which some investors treat as an emerging market, is included.)
Historically, market capitalization-weighted indices have been the tool for asset owners to benchmark and construct their investment portfolios.
When it comes to evaluating the success of equity portfolios or constructing a traditional passive investment strategy, the go-to instrument has usually been the market capitalization-weighted index.
October’s market move is the type of event that can determine a portfolio performance for the entire year. The sharp pullback in stocks has underscored the benefits of a low-volatility strategy: holding the less risky parts of the market has often been worth the price of missing out on the beta rallies.
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the UN-backed group that works to advance sustainability in the asset-management industry, announced earlier this year that it is establishing new minimum requirements for membership.
Inderpal Gujral, Head of Product at STOXX, discussed ideas on thematic investing at the Inside ETFs event that was held in London on Oct. 1–2, 2018.
Factor investing has gained enormous traction in recent years as a transparent and low-cost way to exploit widely-acknowledged sources of market-excess returns, so-called risk premia.