Qontigo won the Index of the Year award in this year’s SRP Europe conference with a joint submission with French financial intermediary firm Silex on the Euro iStoxx Ocean Care 40 index.

The index selects 40 European large capitalisation stocks using 12 criteria regarding oceans preservation and allows investors to reduce their impact on oceans with an index that has Green House Gas intensity four times lower than the Eurostoxx 50 - the Euro iStoxx Ocean Care 40 index has been deployed in its decrement version across 29 products sold in the French market worth an estimated US$400 million. “The true beauty of this index is achieving ocean friendly and low carbon selection