{"id":19899,"date":"2019-05-30T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/?p=19899"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:57:04","slug":"stoxx-extends-its-suite-of-esg-x-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/stoxx-extends-its-suite-of-esg-x-indices\/","title":{"rendered":"STOXX extends its suite of ESG-X indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">STOXX Ltd. has launched a series of new benchmark ESG-X indices, such as an ESG-X version of the flagship EURO STOXX 50\u00ae Index&#8230;<span lang=\"FR\">.<\/span>..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starthostunlimiteddmffassi-ss.stackstaging.com\/etfworld.co.uk\/newsletter\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Sign up to our free newsletters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inderpal Gujral, STOXX\u2019s Head of Product<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ESG-X index concept was developed based on input from asset owners and includes a product involvement screening for controversial weapons, tobacco and thermal coal as well as a norm-based screening that follows the United Nations Global Compact principles of human and labor rights, the environment, business ethics and anti-corruption. STOXX cooperates with the ESG data provider Sustainalytics for the screening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>In order to meet ESG investment criteria, asset owners need to look for solutions beyond the traditional market-cap-weighted index, and still create portfolios that do not diverge from standard benchmarks or incur additional costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">STOXX already addressed this issue in November with the STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X Index and has now launched a set of further benchmarks that exclude companies based on norm- and product-based screenings,\u201d <strong>said Inderpal Gujral, STOXX\u2019s Head of Product.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe were involved in the development of STOXX Europe 600 ESG-X as we were looking for a tradable European benchmark index that is compliant with our responsible investment policy,\u201d<strong> said Magnus Linder, Head of Derivatives at Swedbank Robur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are very happy that the ESG-X range is extended with Eurozone, US and global benchmark indices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">T<strong>he new offering further includes global and emerging markets benchmarks, such as ESG-X versions of the STOXX Global 3000, STOXX Global 1800 and STOXX Emerging Markets 800.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The STOXX USA 500 ESG-X was launched due to high client demand to apply a standardized European exclusion strategy to the US index.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ETFWorld.co.uk<\/p>\n<p id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOXX Ltd. has launched a series of new benchmark ESG-X indices, such as an ESG-X version of the flagship EURO STOXX 50\u00ae Index&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[24],"tags":[304,305,303],"class_list":["post-19899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indices","tag-esg","tag-esg-x","tag-stoxx"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19901,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions\/19901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}