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Index | Portfolio Risk Management
Low Volatility Strategies: Why the Wheels Came Off (Temporarily) in 2020
Low Volatility strategies have a deservedly good reputation for offering investors equity-like returns with less risk.
In this paper, we analyze the performance of the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index spanning the turbulent market conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this paper, we analyze the performance of some of the flagship ESG-X indices underlying exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Index | ESG & Sustainability
The STOXX Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark: A Better Path to Success?
The STOXX® Europe 600 Paris-Aligned Benchmark Index was launched in June 2020. In backtested data since March 2018, we find that the strategy has offered a higher return and lower volatility versus its benchmark. This paper drills down into some of the factors driving those results.
Index | ESG & Sustainability
Introducing STOXX® Factor and ESG-X Factor Indices: Get More From Your Premia Exposures
STOXX Factor Indices are designed for investors who want to reap factor premia while avoiding the noise that pervades many other such products that allow undesired exposures.
The DAX® 50 ESG Index is the flagship index for sustainable equity investments in Germany and the most recent addition to the DAX® index offerings. The DAX® 50 ESG tracks the performance of a diversified portfolio of 50 largest, most liquid eligible German market stocks screened for Global Standards Screening, involvement in controversial weapons, tobacco, thermal coal, nuclear power and military contracting.
Following on from the successful derivatives launches in 2019, STOXX Ltd. (now part of Qontigo) has recently licensed the STOXX® USA 500 ESG-X Index as an underlying for listed futures on Eurex.
Index | Factor Investing
STOXX Factor Indices: Targeted Factor Exposures with Managed Liquidity and Risk Profiles
The STOXX Factor Index suite is comprised of five single-factor indices and a multifactor index engineered to deliver the excess returns associated with each factor using a diversified index of securities with carefully managed exposure, liquidity and risk characteristics.
STOXX is synonymous with equity indexing in Europe. The EURO STOXX 50® Index, EURO STOXX® Index and STOXX® Europe 600 Index have for over 20 years provided liquid and effective access to the region’s stock market, based on transparent rules and an objective methodology.
In this paper, we take a look at how minimum variance performed vis-à-vis its core market counterpart during nine recent geopolitical risk events. The nature of these events is that they tend to push correlations towards 1.0.
Earlier this year, STOXX introduced the EURO STOXX 50® ESG Index, a ESG version of the iconic EURO STOXX 50® that follows standard responsible investment exclusions and integrates companies’ ESG scores into stock selection.
The term “megatrend” was coined by US political scientist and author John Naisbitt at the start of the 1980s. It refers to powerful macroeconomic transformative forces that have a major impact on countries, businesses and societies around the world, disrupting the way products and services are produced, delivered and consumed.