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![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.
![Kiwoom AM lists South Korea’s first DAX ETF](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Seoul-intro-900x350.jpg)
The exchange-traded fund started trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on December 22 and provides domestic investors direct exposure to Europe’s biggest economy and a means of geographic and industry diversification.
![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.
![Stocks rise in December, post third straight year of double-digit gains](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fireworks-1-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX® Global 1800 index jumped 4.3% last month, for a 21.1% advance in 2021, as the Omicron coronavirus variant was reported to lead to significantly lower levels of hospitalizations than previous types. Despite lockdowns, ongoing travel restrictions and supply-chain bottlenecks, the STOXX Global 1800 index finished last year 37% above its pre-pandemic peak in February 2020.
![Trading in EURO STOXX 50 and DAX futures starts in Brazil](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Brazil-B3-2nd-take-intro-900x350.jpg)
Futures on the two European blue-chip indices are now listed on B3, the Brazilian stock exchange, giving local investors direct access to the European market without leaving their home market framework.
![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.
![New batch of single-stock short and leveraged ETPs tracking STOXX indices launched](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LS3-intro-900x350.jpg)
The ETPs are issued by Leverage Shares and add to a list of more than 100 existing products. They include underlyings such as Taiwan Semiconductor and Moderna, and enable investors and traders to efficiently gain leveraged and short exposure to the target stock.
![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.
![Stocks drop in November amid emergence of Omicron virus variant](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PO482-intro-900x350.jpg)
On November 26, the STOXX Global 1800 Index fell the most since September 2020 after South Africa reported the existence of a new variant of the COVID-19 virus that may have a higher infection risk than previous types. Value and Travel & Leisure stocks led the retreat during the month.
![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.