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STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that the EURO STOXX 50 Index has been named “Most Important Index for Product” in the inaugural European SRP Euromoney Structured Retail Products Awards sponsored by www.StructuredRetailProducts.com and Euromoney Magazine. Award winners were chosen based on votes cast by nearly 400 members of Europe’s structured products community.
“We first launched the EURO STOXX 50 Index over a decade ago when the euro was first introduced. Our vision then was to create a tool that offers investors exposure to blue-chip companies in the euro zone. Today, it continues to be the leading underlying for financial products, including structured products, exchange-traded funds and derivatives contracts,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Ltd. “Winning this award by Structured Retail Products acknowledges our efforts in providing market participants with reliable, innovative and state-of-the-art indices and challenges us to further develop reliable and thorough index underlyings.”
As of second half of 2011, there are about 204,800 structured products and 290 ETFs linked to the STOXX, DAX and SMI indices, including the flagship EURO STOXX 50, STOXX Europe 600 Supersector and STOXX Select Dividend indices. As of July 2010, STOXX is the marketing agent for the indices of Deutsche Boerse AG and SIX Group AG.
Recent index launches by STOXX include the STOXX Global Index family of more than 1,200 indices, as well as the STOXX Global Rare Earth Index, iSTOXX World Select and EURO STOXX 50 Volatility-Balanced indices.
For further information, please see www.stoxx.com.
