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![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.
![Five years of iShares thematic ETFs: looking back and ahead](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Five-years-of-iShares-thematic-ETFs-looking-back-and-ahead_intro-900x350.jpg)
In the fifth anniversary of the launch of the first thematic ETFs resulting from the collaboration between BlackRock and Qontigo, we reflect on the performance of seven strategies covered in this partnership: Automation & Robotics, Ageing Population, Digitalization, Electric Vehicles, Digital Security, Healthcare Innovation and Smart City Infrastructure.
![Stocks resume rally in October amid strong earnings season](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Oct-2021-market-wrap-intro-900x350.jpg)
The STOXX Global 1800 Index climbs 5.4% in month when measured in dollars and including dividends, led by US and European markets. Factor, thematic and dividend strategies struggle to catch up with strong showing from benchmarks.
![EURO STOXX 50 and DAX futures to be listed in Brazil; first-ever outside Europe](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/EURO-STOXX-50-and-DAX-futures-to-be-listed-in-Brazil-first-ever-outside-Europe_intro_Brazil-900x350.jpg)
B3, operator of the Brazilian stock exchange, will list futures on the two European blue-chip indices in December. The new products will give local investors direct access to the European market without leaving their home exchange.
![Lyxor’s Scheehl: switch of Europe 600 ETF’s index will cater to growing pool of ESG-minded investors](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/green-trees-office-building-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | Benchmarks
Lyxor’s Scheehl: switch of Europe 600 ETF’s index will cater to growing pool of ESG-minded investors
Lyxor ETF Germany and Austria’s Head of Product Development & Engineering explains how the change in the underlying index for the Lyxor 1 STOXX® Europe 600 UCITS ETF means the fund now complies with sustainability labels and meets the responsible criteria of retail and institutional European investors.
![Q&A with the IIA and Qontigo: ESG indices need to balance regulatory needs, investment objectives through customized solutions](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IIA-ESG-survey-Arun-and-Rick-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Q&A with the IIA and Qontigo: ESG indices need to balance regulatory needs, investment objectives through customized solutions
Rick Redding of the Index Industry Association (IIA) and Qontigo’s Arun Singhal discuss what role indices will play in an asset-management industry increasingly veering towards sustainability considerations in the portfolio-construction process.
![The role of indices and data analytics in sustainable investing](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-role-of-indices-and-data-analytics-in-sustainable-investing_intro_esg-900x350.jpg)
Sustainability indices and analytics are crucial catalysts for investors to transition from ‘brown’ to ‘green’ portfolios. However, the shift is being hindered, among other things, by inconsistent national legislations and lack of proper ESG disclosures from companies. Regulators have a key role to play to overcome these obstacles.
![Sustainable evolution puts index design on center stage](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sustainableevolutionputsindexdesignoncenterstage_intro_jpeg-900x350.jpg)
As sustainable investing’s uptake continues to gather pace, index-based solutions have gained investors’ favor as a simple, low-cost and transparent way to implement sustainable strategies.
![Practitioners’ panel discusses growth of exchange-traded ESG derivatives, outlook for next generation of solutions](https://stoxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/PO472-ESG-landscape-intro-900x350.jpg)
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Practitioners’ panel discusses growth of exchange-traded ESG derivatives, outlook for next generation of solutions
A webinar organized by Risk.net and Eurex addressed the surge in interest in ESG derivatives and explored what lies ahead for the market amid increasing regulation and continued improvements in data and index design.