ESG indices
Discover the three pillars of our ESG index offering and find the solution that’s right for you: readily-available, off-the-shelf core solutions, focused thematic ESG indices and Solactive’s market-leading customization capabilites. Our offering in these areas spans not only across asset classes, regions and size segments but also across the views and principles of our clients. Get started today!
Core ESG Solutions
Our ESG Core offering includes readily available index solutions for the timeliest ESG investment themes in the equity and fixed income space. Indices of our core offering can be used as underlyings of financial products, starting universes or for performance benchmarking.
Thematic ESG Solutions
The evolution of the ESG space captures many different areas of society and our everyday life creating various new investment themes along the way. Our thematic ESG offering spans a wide range of these themes and is growing as new trends emerge along the way.
Customized ESG Solutions
Looking to implement your very own views on ESG topics? Look no further and leverage our teams’ expertise combined with our open architecture to create the index you’re looking for.
Core ESG Solutions
Our core ESG index offering includes readily available index solutions for the timeliest ESG investment themes in the equity and fixed income space. Our open architecture allows you to choose or combine different approaches amongst the following:
Climate
Solactive ISS ESG EU Paris-Aligned & Climate Transition Benchmarks
Indices tackling climate change have risen to the forefront of investors’ attention in recent years. Our multi-asset EU Paris-Aligned and Climate Transition Benchmark offering applies a consistent methodology across various relevant segments of global stock and bond markets . All indices are designed to comply with current EU regulatory requirements and align with the IPCC’s 1.5°C scenario with no or limited overshoot.
Best-in-class
Solactive ISS ESG prime series
The indices of the Solactive ISS ESG Prime Series are built through a best-in-class approach based on the ISS ESG Prime Standard, thereby providing exposure to companies fulfilling highly-ambitious overall ESG requirements while adhering to a base layer norms and activity-based exclusion policy.
Exclusions
Solactive ISS ESG Screened Series
The Solactive ISS ESG Screened Series includes only companies that operate in accordance with market standards on ESG norms and controversy screens (e.g. labor rights, UN Global Compact, Fossil Fuel, Oil Sands, Controversial weapons, tobacco, gambling, alcohol etc.). The series applies a consistent methodology across asset classes and various regional building blocks.
UN SDGs
The SDG Index and Dashboards provides an annual assessment of SDG progress in all 193 UN member states.
Solactive ISS SDG Aligned Series
Provides exposure to companies with net positive contributions to 17 SDGs, and no negative contribution to any individual SDG.
Solactive ISS SDG Leaders Series
Provides exposure to companies with significant net positive contributions to 17 SDGs, as well as no negative contribution to any individual SDG.
Impact Bonds
Solactive Green, Social & Blue Bonds Index Series
As one of the longest-standing green bond index providers in the market, our Solactive Green Bond Index Series provides core exposure to this ever more important segment of global fixed income markets. Our Solactive Social and Sustainability Bond Index offers a standalone strategy for the ‘S’ in ESG. The Solactive Blue Bond Index tracks bonds that aim to support clean water and oceans.
Biodiversity
Solactive Biodiversity Screened Index Series
Solactive has developed a range of biodiversity screened index strategies allowing investors to consider the impact of companies on biodiversity into their investments. The biodiversity impact assessment is based on data by Solactive’s strategic partner Iceberg Data Lab. The series applies a consistent methodology across various regional building blocks.
Thematic ESG Solutions
As the ESG space evolves, thematic opportunities arise along the way. We help our clients capture these opportunities by marrying our long-standing expertise and innovation power in thematic index construction with our broad ESG offering.
As an industry leader in the thematic indexing space, we strive to provide innovative solutions to our clients. Our capabilities in the ESG space complement our thematic innovation power.
Leverage our open architecture to create custom ESG exclusion or integration policies within thematic indices, let us guide you to regulatory and label compliance while adhering to the desired investment theme.
Customized ESG solutions
Our teams guide you through the index design process ensuring your ideas and requirements are reflected at every stage. Rely on our expertise for all the challenges along the way.
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Start with your idea
The starting point and centerpiece of the index design process. Let us know your goal – high-level idea or fully matured methodology. Our teams will help you to identify and solve key opportunities and challenges.
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Starting universe
Leverage our core benchmark and ESG solutions: Building-block options for your desired exposure across all major domains of global equity and fixed income markets with or without pre-defined ESG overlays.
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Your data
Our open architecture approach allows you to work with the ESG provider of your choice or even utilize your in-house data. Open minded? Let our team point you towards the most suitable data for your goals.
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Your Index
We bring all pieces together while providing market-leading flexibility and speed to bring your idea to market as efficiently and cost effective as possible.
Solactive ESG offering
Our clients are at the center of the biggest investment evolution of our time. A unique mixture of market-driven, regulatory, and political focus on ESG creates opportunities and challenges for them alike.
ESG data
Our open architecture benefits you in finding the best data for your needs, including: 1. Establish ESG data partnerships 2. Onboarding new providers of your choice and your inhouse data 3. Solactive’s strategic partner network Your views and beliefs are the core of our approach to ESG data and we invite you to read more on how open architecture adapts to your need.
ESG services
The value chain for ESG products is expanding. Hence , we support clients beyond the index through variety of services: 1. Sustainable stewardship including proxy voting 2. Compliance support 3. Reporting Find out more on how we help objectives beyond the index.