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iBoxx® Global Green, Social & Sustainability Bonds Index

Benchmark index family for tracking green, social and sustainability bonds

The IHS Markit iBoxx® Global Green, Social & Sustainability Bonds Index is designed to reflect the performance of global Green, Social and Sustainability investment grade and high yield sovereign, sub-sovereign and corporate bonds denominated in EUR, USD, GBP and CAD, whilst upholding minimum standards of investability and liquidity. The index is part of a range of available iBoxx ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and sustainability bond indices.

Green, Social and Sustainability index supports impact investing. The use of proceeds by issuers of eligible bonds intend to finance qualifying investments that generate measurable societal and/or environmental benefits, rather than more broadly financing an issuers' activities.

The index leverages external, independent sustainable data sources from Climate Bonds Initiative (“CBI”) and Environmental Finance to determine ‘Green’, ‘Social’, and ‘Sustainability’ bond classifications. The classification schema is broadly based on the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) voluntary principles for self-labelling but also contains other eligible sustainable bonds such as those based on the UN Sustainable Development goals. All bonds need to have a pledge to use the proceeds of the bonds for Green, Social or Sustainability investments to be eligible.

Key benefits:
  • Transparency – Access to our rules-based methodology for constituent selection, monthly rebalancing and daily total return calculations is publicly available.
  • Data Integrity – Rely on data that utilises independent, multi-sourced pricing and reference data with rigorous quality testing, and a documented price challenge process in place. Compliant with IOSCO benchmark principles.
  • Relevance – Capture the growing impact investment universe of global green, social, and sustainability bonds.
  • Flexibility – Customise indices to meet specific index designs.
  • Flexible access – Distribute data through our FTP service, IHS Markit website, and via many data vendors.

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Nicholas Godec, CFA

Nick is an Index Product Manager covering IHS Markit's tradable indices, including OTC and Exchange Listed Derivatives and the development of indices for Exchange Traded Funds. In addition to serving as a product expert for the various IHS Markit indices and their tradable equivalents, he chairs the committee for and manages the launch of new North American CDS index series, including the Markit CDX High Yield and Investment Grade, CDX Emerging Markets, CMBX and MCDX indices. Prior to joining IHS Markit, he was a research analyst on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Bond Indices team that is now a part of the Intercontinental Exchange. Mr. Godec is a CFA charterholder and holds a Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM). In 2019, he completed his MBA from Columbia Business School's Executive MBA program, graduating with Dean's Honors.

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Smadar Shulman

Her responsibilities include setting product strategy and priorities for IHS Markit's indices products, working with customers and internal stakeholders on delivering new product initiatives and managing existing products. Ms. Shulman has more than 15 years of experience in the field of indices, starting her career at Lehman Brothers. Previously, she was a director at Barclays Index and Portfolio analytics team working in a variety of roles. Ms. Shulman holds a first class UK honours degree from London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Executive MBA with distinction from the Cass Business School, London City University, UK.

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Randolf Tantzscher

Mr. Tantzscher is responsible for product management of Asian Indices. He joined the company in 2008 to establish the research and design team within Indices and he moved to Asia in 2011 to drive the expansion of IHS Markit indices in Asia, including the launch of the several new index families, the integration of the Asian bond indices from HSBC and the index partnership with ChinaBond Pricing Center on onshore Chinese bond indices. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Asian fixed income market and in designing and managing indices across different asset classes. Prior to joining IHS Markit, he spent seven years at Concerto Financial Solutions and FACT Unternehmensberatung GmbH, where he was responsible for creating and launching several iBoxx indices. Mr. Randolf Tantzscher is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English and German and is a graduate in finance from Passau University in Germany.

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