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A new index offers investors the possibility to combine sustainability criteria with a high dividend yield and low volatility profile, marrying popular portfolio characteristics with idiosyncratic benefits. 

The STOXX® Thematic Indices family is expanding to incorporate another technology-based megatrend with a compelling growth profile.

Following years of a debate centered on the arguments in favor and against the two investment styles, more professional asset managers and asset allocators are combining passive and active funds to access markets and strategies efficiently.

In the past two years, blockchain has quickly established itself as an alternative technology with the potential to transform the way businesses are run. Some have compared its disruption capacity to the effects created by the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics or big data.

A slump in Chinese shares is turning out to be one of this year’s most defining market events. The STOXX® China A 900 Index has dropped 19% since Jan. 1.

Global equity indices rose by the most in six months in July, as buoyant economic and corporate data helped turn investors’ focus away from fears of a trade war.

As part of the expanding STOXX thematic offering, we are excited to introduce a new index tracking four technologies transforming business globally. 

PE’s latest Top 400 Asset Managers survey of the largest institutional money managers sheds light on the increasing popularity of index-based strategies: passively managed assets grew almost twice as fast as actively managed ones between 2013 and 2018.

Strong balance sheets, established businesses, higher return-on-equity and superior profitability.

The European Central Bank (ECB) recently conducted a market consultation to assess three candidate euro overnight rates as alternatives to the current benchmark EONIA, the long-established risk-free rate (RFR) for pan-European lending.

Equity markets struggled in June, led by Europe and emerging economies, as US barriers on imports raised concerns that a trade war is unfolding.

It’s the uncontested benchmark for German stocks, but its 30th anniversary finds DAX covering a much wider scope.