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![Qontigo expands STOXX multifactor indices for iShares ETFs by BlackRock](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PO525-2nd-intro-900x350.jpg)
Four new indices have been added to the STOXX Equity Factor suite, which offers diversified multifactor exposure to five equity style risk premia sources. Powered by STOXX’s indexing capabilities and Axioma’s risk models and portfolio optimizer, the indices deliver balanced and well-researched factor exposures, seeking long-term outperformance.
![Why have emerging markets become less risky than their developed counterparts?](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/EM3-intro-900x350.jpg)
Since late 2021, the STOXX Emerging Markets 1500 index has shown lower forecast and realized volatility than the STOXX Global 1800, a benchmark for developed economies. Using Axioma’s Factor Risk Models, a new whitepaper from Qontigo’s Applied Research team investigates the drivers of this anomaly.
![Infrastructure: a portfolio’s barrier against inflation](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/PO587-intro-900x350.jpg)
Using Axioma’s Macroeconomic Projection Model, we decompose the risk factors that drove returns in the STOXX Global Broad Infrastructure between 2020 and 2022. The results show the index had a positive exposure to the risk model’s inflation factors, meaning it stood to benefit from rising global inflation expectations.
![The Metaverse: investing at the new digital frontier](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO580-intro-900x350.jpg)
The recently launched STOXX Global Metaverse Index uses a sophisticated methodology to screen those companies with the most relevant patents in technologies associated with the Metaverse. This allows investors to target innovators whose products and services are likely to be leading the transition to the virtual world in the coming years. A new Qontigo whitepaper explores the index in detail.
![Qontigo’s Axel Lomholt: STOXX World indices bring flexible portfolio building blocks to growing client base](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/STOXX-World-Puzzle-Intro-Image-900x350.jpg)
Index | Benchmarks
Qontigo’s Axel Lomholt: STOXX World indices bring flexible portfolio building blocks to growing client base
Qontigo has introduced the STOXX® World indices, a modular suite that allows investors to flexibly build portfolios covering a broad and liquid universe of markets.
![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.
![Stocks fall in December, wrapping worst year since 2008](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PO578-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX Global 1800 index fell 3.9% in dollars last month, for a loss of 17.9% in 2022. Momentum stocks led the retreat in the year while automobiles were the worst-performing sector. Dividend stocks performed relatively well despite a background of rising interest rates.