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STOXX Ltd. is owned by Deutsche Börse AG
and SIX Group AG. Launched in 1998, in advance of the
completion of the European Economic and Monetary Union,
the introduction of the Euro and the creation of the Eurozone,
the STOXX indices have become Europe's leading indices in a
fast and impressive success story. By consistently responding to market
requirements, STOXX Ltd. further expanded its strategy beyond Europe.
STOXX Ltd. operates as a globally
integrated index provider, covering the world markets, developing,
maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family
of strictly rules-based and transparent indices.
The indices of STOXX Ltd. are licensed to over
400 companies around the world as underlyings for Exchange Traded
Funds (ETFs), Futures & Options, Structured Products and
passively-managed investment funds.
The market has chosen the STOXX indices as the standard for
European index, exchange-listed products: three of the top Exchange
Traded Funds (ETFs) in Europe and 30 percent of all assets under
management are based on STOXX indices. Beside its leading
role as Europe's number one index provider in the ETF segment, STOXX
Ltd. holds Europe's number one and the world's number three position
in the derivatives segment.
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