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In a recent webinar, Lukas Ahnert, Senior Product Specialist at Xtrackers by DWS, and Arun Singhal, Head of Product Management and Client Success at STOXX, discussed the drivers behind Europe’s stock rally and the latest investment strategies designed in collaboration by both firms.

The underlying index combines revenues- and patent-based stock selection methodologies, capturing companies across the spectrum and life cycle of the targeted themes.

The asset manager has updated the objective of an existing ETF to track an index focused on European companies with significant share in their respective market segments, competitive business advantage and superior profitability.

Large-scale investments in the area of AI infrastructure — such as semiconductors and cloud computing — herald gains in company efficiencies and profits in coming years. The iShares AI Infrastructure UCITS ETF, which tracks a STOXX index, has topped USD 100 million in assets only nine months following its launch in December last year.

Changes are 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.

Amid strong demand for European defense stocks this year, seeking ‘pure’ exposure to the theme through military equipment revenues has enabled investors to outperform.

The STOXX World AC index added 2.6% last month in US dollars to a new record, and rose 0.3% in euros. US stocks and Value indices led the advance for a second consecutive month.

Seismic shifts in the environment, technology and socio-demographics — known as megatrends — as well as geopolitical drivers are transforming our world and creating investable themes such as artificial intelligence, defense, digital assets and energy transition metals. Thematic indices offer investors a chance to target the beneficiaries of these trends.

Timing the market is difficult, but how can we measure the degree of difficulty? A new STOXX whitepaper explores a metric — the ‘tail-implied volatility (TIV) spread’ — that can help investors understand the risk of anticipating market trends for different portfolios.

AI is a vast and complex theme that covers multiple conceptual areas and technologies. How do patents help identify the AI innovators that are selected into STOXX thematic indices? We asked EconSight’s Kai Gramke and STOXX’s Ladi Williams.

The STOXX World AC index added 1.4% last month in US dollars and 4% in euros. US stocks and Value indices led the advance.

‘Made for Germany’ initiative from 61 firms, nearly half of which are DAX constituents, was presented to Chancellor Friedrich Merz as means to foster innovation, employment and competitiveness. The announcement comes amid the government’s spending plans to boost economic growth and investors’ mounting interest in German stocks this year.