Zug (February 20, 2019) – STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has launched seven new thematic indices. They cover a broad array of themes: housing construction, industry 4.0, millennials, sharing economy, silver economy, smart cities, and smart factory. With these new launches STOXX is now offering 16 revenue-based thematic indices.

“Thematic investing continues to attract strong capital flows as investors target disruptive megatrends with above-average growth outlooks. At STOXX we have advanced thematic investing since 2016 and are delighted to extend our thematic menu to include a variety of new concepts,” said Inderpal Gujral, STOXX Head of Product.

Each index selects those constituents within the STOXX® Developed and Emerging Markets Total Market Index, and applies two screens. In a first step, only stocks with a 3-month median daily trading volume (MDTV) greater than €1 million are included. The second screen selects companies with the highest (more than 50%) revenue exposure to business sectors associated with the concept in question. To that end, STOXX has partnered with FactSet Revere, a leading taxonomy expert, to use the FactSet Revere Business Industry Classification System (FactSet RBICS).

The seven new thematic indices:

• STOXX® Global Housing Construction
• STOXX® Global Industry 4.0
• STOXX® Global Millennials
• STOXX® Global Sharing Economy
• STOXX® Global Silver Economy
• STOXX® Global Smart Cities
• STOXX® Global Smart Factory

About STOXX Limited

STOXX Ltd. is a global index provider, currently calculating a global, comprehensive index family of over 10,000 strictly rules-based and transparent indices. Best known for the leading European equity indices EURO STOXX 50, STOXX Europe 50 and STOXX Europe 600, STOXX Ltd. maintains and calculates the STOXX Global index family which consists of total market, broad and blue-chip indices for the regions Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific and sub-regions Latin America and BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as well as global markets.

To provide market participants with optimal transparency, STOXX indices are classified into four categories. Regular “STOXX” indices include all standard, theme and strategy indices that are part of STOXX’s integrated index family and follow a strict rules-based methodology. The “iSTOXX” brand typically comprises less standardized index concepts that are not integrated in the STOXX Global index family, but are nevertheless strictly rules-based. While indices that are branded “STOXX” and “iSTOXX” are developed by STOXX for a broad range of market participants, the “STOXX Customized” brand covers indices that are specifically developed for clients and do not carry the STOXX brand in the index name. Under the Omnient brand, STOXX offers custom indices from its existing index universe.

STOXX indices are licensed to more than 600 companies around the world as underlyings for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), futures and options, structured products and passively managed investment funds. Three of the top ETFs in Europe and approximately 25% of all assets under management are based on STOXX indices. STOXX Ltd. holds Europe's number one and the world's number two position in the derivatives segment.

STOXX is part of Deutsche Boerse Group, and also calculates, disseminates and markets the DAX indices.

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