STOXX Limited, the market-moving provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today announced that it has won the Structured Products Europe 2014 Award under the category Index Innovation. The award was presented at a ceremony after the annual Structured Products Europe conference on Nov. 18, 2014 in London.
“We are honored to be recognized as the most innovative index provider by Structured Products Magazine,” said Hartmut Graf, chief executive officer, STOXX Limited. “Having won the award shows that the market recognizes us not only for the EURO STOXX 50 Index but also for our growing suite of smart-beta, strategy and theme indices and our reference rate index family, which comprises our GC Pooling indices.”
Richard Jory, editor of Structured Products Magazine, said: “STOXX has delivered a complex and comprehensive suite of smart-beta indices in the past year, developing innovative investment themes and refining already established strategies with clients’ needs in mind - all while providing a globally recognized equity benchmark in the form of the EURO STOXX 50.” Structured Products magazine is owned by Incisive Media, a UK-based B2B information provider, serving a wide range of financial, business technology and professional services markets globally.
The number of structured products based on STOXX indices rose 24.4% to 51,478 at the end of October, 2014, compared to October, 2013. The number of structured products based on STOXX, DAX and SMI Indices rose 19.2% to 330,099 in the same time. STOXX is the marketing agent for the indices of Deutsche Börse AG and SIX, as of July, 2010.
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