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More asset owners and managers joined the ranks of those divesting from tobacco and coal-related stocks in the year that ends, cementing a trend that is likely to intensify in coming years.
After starting the year on a positive note, equity markets were rattled by economic and political concerns as 2018 unfolded, with all but one of the 46 broad national indices tracked by STOXX now set to post an annual loss.
Doxing, hacking, bugging, phishing. The world of digital communications has opened up a long list of modern threats, and companies are reacting to fend them off.
Last October, STOXX Ltd. licensed the STOXX® Global Fintech Index to Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management as an underlying for an investment fund.
Equity markets rebounded in November from heavy losses a month earlier, led by emerging-market and US indices. European stocks dropped.
The launch of the DAX® Equal Weight Index this month presents a good opportunity to review the virtues of an equal-weight equity strategy.
Historically, market capitalization-weighted indices have been the tool for asset owners to benchmark and construct their investment portfolios.
When it comes to evaluating the success of equity portfolios or constructing a traditional passive investment strategy, the go-to instrument has usually been the market capitalization-weighted index.
October’s market move is the type of event that can determine a portfolio performance for the entire year. The sharp pullback in stocks has underscored the benefits of a low-volatility strategy: holding the less risky parts of the market has often been worth the price of missing out on the beta rallies.
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the UN-backed group that works to advance sustainability in the asset-management industry, announced earlier this year that it is establishing new minimum requirements for membership.
Equity markets sold off by the most in six years in October, amid investor concerns that rising bond yields and a slowdown in China will stymie global growth.
This month, the STOXX® GC Pooling EUR Deferred Funding Rate (GC Pooling Deferred), a benchmark of overnight borrowing costs in Europe, turned five years old, as did the full STOXX GC Pooling money market curve.