STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that it has been named “Most Innovative Index Provider” by ETF Express. This is the fourth consecutive year that STOXX has received this award, and the first time ever that any company has won an award in any category four times in a row. Award winners are chosen based on votes cast by readers of ETF Express. The newsletter’s readership consists of index and exchange-traded fund (ETF) users.
“Winning the award for Most Innovative Index Provider for the fourth consecutive year is a great honor, and also proves that market participants appreciate our dedication to deliver state of the art index concepts,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “Historically, STOXX has always been a company strongly committed to innovation: the STOXX Indices were launched in advance of the introduction of the Euro with the vision to provide transparent and strictly rules-based indices for Europe and the Euro zone. Just yesterday we celebrated the 15th anniversary of STOXX, and will continue to remain true to this commitment in the years to come.”
As of December 31, 2012, 285 ETFs globally are based on the STOXX, DAX and SMI indices, to which 98.7 bn U.S. dollards in AUM are tied. . 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 Minimum Variance, STOXX Global 1800 EM Exposed and iSTOXX Efficient Capital Managed Futures 20 Index. At the end of 2012, STOXX also expanded the STOXX Global Index Family with the launch of 1,200 supersector, size, regional and total market indices. Furthermore, the STOXX China Index family was added to the index universe.
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