About us

Innovative by conviction
                                   
Deutsche Börse Group offers an innovative range of indices (or index solutions), which stand for maximum transparency, reliability and precision. With our indices, we are continually expanding the range of options open to investors to react to specific market situations, or to make systematic investments based on individual requirements.  
Our product development activities focus in particular on the use of innovative concepts for index design, in order to ensure the optimum implementation of market demands.

The industry has already rewarded us twice for our efforts with the “Most innovative ETF Index Provider Europe” award. This prize is awarded to individuals and companies that have made a valuable contribution to the further development of the global ETF industry.  

Since January 2010, Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Group AG became the sole shareholder of STOXX Ltd. Since then STOXX acts as marketing agent for all indices of Deutsche Börse AG and SIX Group AG, amongst them the DAX and the SMI indices. For our customers this means one single point of contact for all index brands.

Index Licencing

Together with STOXX and SIX Group AG, Deutsche Börse AG calculates and publishes over 5,000 indices under national and international registered trademarks which make its markets transparent, and facilitate both comparison and investment. Investors, asset managers, financial services providers and private investors use these indices as a benchmark for traded financial instruments in general, or for actively managed portfolios.

The indices are also used as an underlying for a large number of financial instruments worldwide. These include structured products, ETFs, passively managed index funds, index-linked notes, OTC options, swaps, insurance policies and other index-linked financial assets. The growth of the market for structured products in particular has led to the wide distribution and use of the indices.

Companies that want to issue financial instruments based on the Deutsche Börse index concepts and indices underlying the licensed trademarks must conclude an index licensing agreement. Under an Index licensing agreement Deutsche Börse grants the licensee the right to issue, distribute, have listed, trade and advertise specific financial instruments which are based on licensable indices and their index concepts, using the trademark concerned. For more information, please contact the sales team of STOXX Limited, the marketing agent for DAX indices (www.stoxx.com).