STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, yesterday announced that it has been named “The Most Innovative ETF Index Provider Europe 2012”. This is the fourth consecutive year that STOXX has received this award. The award was presented at the 9th Annual ETF Global Awards Dinner and Workshop hosted by Exchangetradedfunds.com in New York. Award winners were determined by special voting forms which were sent in by 480 organizations worldwide. The results are a good representation of the views of the industry.
“Winning the award for most innovative index provider for the fourth consecutive year is a great honor, and acknowledges our dedication to develop state of the art index concepts,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “Our most recent, innovative index launches include the STOXX Minimum Variance Indices. STOXX has also teamed up with Eurex Repo to develop the STOXX GC Pooling Indices which are based on the daily transactions on the regulated GC Pooling market; and are designed to provide transparent, rules-based alternatives to unsecured interbank benchmarks such as LIBOR and EURIBOR/EONIA.”
Our most recent, innovative index launches include the STOXX Emerging Markets Indices, based on the transparent STOXX market classification model which is the first of its kind to offer market participants a completely rules based and transparent classification for Developed and Emerging Markets in five comprehensible steps.”
There are currently 286 ETFs based on STOXX, DAX and SMI indices, including the flagship EURO STOXX 50, STOXX Europe 600 Supersector and STOXX Select Dividend indices. Recent index launches by STOXX include the STOXX GC Pooling Indices as well as the STOXX Global 3D Printing, STOXX China A 50 and iSTOXX Efficient Capital Managed Futures 20 indices.
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