ESG-X: a new, comprehensive family of sustainability indices

Release date: 29 May 2019

As asset owners steadily step up their fiduciary role and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies, they require benchmarking solutions beyond the traditional market-capitalization-weighted index for their responsible portfolios.

To address this need, STOXX is introducing ESG-compliant versions of 42 flagship benchmarks that meet the standard responsible-investing criteria of leading investors. The new index family follows the successful launch of the STOXX® Europe 600 ESG-X Index, an ESG version of Europe’s most popular benchmark that inaugurated the ESG-X approach in November.

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