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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. 

The first edition of Morningstar’s European Active/Passive Barometer shows the extent to which active managers in the region have underperformed their passive peers in recent years, suggesting the active-management industry must contend not only with high costs but with poor returns too. 

Inderpal Gujral, Head of Product at STOXX, discussed ideas on thematic investing at the Inside ETFs event that was held in London on Oct. 1–2, 2018.

Oct. 24, 2018 – On Wednesday, Deutsche Börse announced an unscheduled change to the DAX index.

Oct. 18, 2018 –  STOXX Ltd. has licensed the STOXX Global Fintech Index to Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management as an underlying for an investment fund.

Factor investing has gained enormous traction in recent years as a transparent and low-cost way to exploit widely-acknowledged sources of market-excess returns, so-called risk premia.

Socially responsible investing (SRI) has in recent years become a major consideration in the asset-management industry. Three recent surveys help shed light on the high level of adoption among both institutional and retail investors. 

US and European stocks posted modest gains in September, helping the STOXX® Global 1800 Index wrap up its best calendar quarter this year. Japanese shares recorded their strongest month in 11, reportedly amid foreign investors’ inflows.

Global equity indices rose in September, helped by a continued bull market in US shares, a multi-month jump for Japanese stocks and a mild rebound in Europe. 

September 2018 marked the tenth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, an event that epitomizes the traumatic happenings of 2008.

September 27, 2018 – Axioma today announced the launch of new interactive dashboards that enable portfolio managers and risk managers to obtain valuable insights on risk from Axioma’s enterprise risk-management platform, factor risk models and full suite of market data.

Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), ein globaler Vorreiter im Bereich der Indexreplikation, hat mit dem CSIF (Lux) Equity EURO STOXX Multi Premia einen UCITS-konformen Indexfonds im Multi-Faktor-Segment lanciert.