How clients use our Fixed Income Solutions
In a dynamic financial landscape, the power to craft and manage distinctive portfolios lies in the ability to harness a holistic approach. MSCI’s extensive suite of fixed income offerings integrates indexes, analytics and a rigorous climate and sustainability framework, setting the stage for portfolio differentiation.
Confidently navigate global bond market uncertainties with our fixed income indexes and analytics tools, capitalizing on opportunities or mitigating risks as conditions shift.
Incorporate climate and sustainability into decisions. Access global indexes with overlays to manage risks and opportunities in corporate and sovereign bonds.
Build portfolios that mirror your unique investment strategy using fixed income indexes that comprise an expansive range of opportunity sets across global markets.
Analyze performance drivers and navigate risk factors, such as credit, market, interest rate, and liquidity. Run stress testing and scenario analysis to identify unintended bets.
Customize your strategies to match your objectives across asset classes with innovative, tradeable corporate bond indexes that feature enhanced liquidity scores.
Key benefits
MSCI Fixed Income Solutions encompass proprietary indexes, data and analytics, as well as strategic partnerships with global market benchmark and data leaders, affording extensive choice and ease of implementation.
Cohesive approaches across asset classes
Build sustainable equity and fixed income portfolios with homogenous data and cohesive methodologies to ensure consistency.
Differentiate your fixed income offering
Craft distinctive and enhanced fixed income portfolios that reflect your unique investment philosophy, whether fundamental, quantitative or both.
Leverage the investment management ecosystem
Act with confidence building on our extensive track record in indexing and relationships in the ETF ecosystem. Our insights draw from connections with asset owners and other institutional clients around the globe.
You know us for equities; now rely on us for fixed income
Fixed income instrument coverage across markets and regions with unique capabilities
Corporate and sovereign bonds including over 6,500 issuer-level spread curves (over 1.1 million active)1
Mortgage-backed securities including prepayment model for Agency MBS (over one million active securities)
Municipal bonds including dedicated implied volatility factors (over one million active)
Syndicated (bank) loans including proprietary prepayment estimations (over 34,000 active)
Our Fixed Income Indexes leverage over 55 years of extensive risk and performance experience in market analytics used by some of the largest global investors and financial institutions. Our ESG Indexes rely on data from MSCI ESG Ratings and Climate Data and Metrics from MSCI ESG Research LLC, a pioneer in measuring forward-looking sustainability risk and use of alternative data and AI technology.
Our Climate Risk Center brings together some of the best minds in quantitative finance and climate science to build new types of models and analytics for pricing climate risk, allocating capital, and deepening understanding of how the climate transition influences financial markets.
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Strategic index inclusion
Targeted and transparent, MSCI's fixed income indexes aim to help you identify opportunities and build portfolios aligned to your vision.
Advanced analytics
Identify risks, spot opportunities and streamline workflows with MSCI fixed income analytics, supporting front and middle office teams.
Integrate sustainability
Align fixed income strategies with investor values using models and analytics to integrate sustainability and climate, price risk and navigate the transition.
Private debt analytics
Access data, indexes and analytics for private debt, equity and real estate to clarify risks and opportunities, and invest confidently.
Measure climate risk in your portfolio
Learn how to assess the carbon risk of your portfolio to set a baseline for future action.
Is climate risk relevant for bond investors?
Climate change costs could potentially pose a significant risk to issuers and adversely affect the value of bonds.
Data as of March 31, 2022.
NOTE: Published in the Journal of Portfolio Management, October, 2022. Issuers’ OAS and physical-risk cost of climate change defined as company’s expected (average scenario) or worst-case (95th percentile, aggressive scenario) downside, expressed as a percentage of a company’s total market value, assuming trends in extreme weather conditions continue along different greenhouse gas concentration pathways, as of March 31, 2022.
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1 All data as of February 2025, unless otherwise noted.