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The ETF was launched in December 2022 and follows a unique patents-based stock selection methodology targeting innovators that are creating and deploying the Metaverse.

STOXX has published its most complete study to date of VSTOXX, the flagship gauge of equity market volatility in the Eurozone. Explore the methodology behind the index, the concept of volatility, and available trading strategies — from theory to use cases.

Arun Singhal, global head of product management at STOXX, speaks to ETF Stream Editor Theo Andrew about why flows are returning to European equities, and the role indices play.

STOXX uses a lifecycle framework to identify investable themes based on their conceptual and business evolution. Depending on the point in that cycle, either patents and/or revenues may provide the best signal to select the key contributors and main beneficiaries of that theme.

The STOXX World AC benchmark gained 2.4% last month, taking its third-quarter gain to 6.7%. Almost half of market participants forecast the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates by another 75 basis points before year-end.

The TRFs were listed on September 30, expanding the leading pan-European benchmark’s trading ecosystem. TRFs have seen strong demand from market participants as a way to efficiently gain exposure to price-plus-dividend returns of shares and indices.

The TecDAX index has tracked the performance of German technology stocks since 2003. Through a broad yet focused industry taxonomy, the index covers companies with a core technology business across multiple industries.

In December 2023, STOXX introduced the STOXX® Digital Asset Blue Chip index, which aims to track high-quality assets that represent the crypto universe today. Ladi Williams, Executive Director for Index Product Management at STOXX, discusses the index in an interview with Asset TV.

The STOXX® Europe 600 SRI index is aligned with the new ESMA guidelines on fund names. Investors, meanwhile, will have a say whether other derivatives’ underlying methodologies will change. We asked experts from Eurex and STOXX what this means for the segment.

A year ago, Invesco switched the underlying strategies for three US-listed ETFs that target technology themes to three STOXX indices. Since then, the ETFs have shown very strong performance as investors expect companies exposed to those themes to benefit from increasing demand in new technologies.

The STOXX US Nexus 100, STOXX US 2000, STOXX USA Titans 30 and STOXX USA 500 underlie futures as of today, expanding the possibilities for investors to trade baskets of US stocks.

Changes were announced as part of the September regular review of the DAX 50 ESG, DAX 50 ESG+, DAX 30 ESG, DAX ESG Target, DAX ESG Screened, MDAX ESG+, MDAX ESG Screened and DAX indices.