2025 MSCI Insurance Summit: Navigating Private Markets, Climate, and AI-Driven Innovation

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  • October 28, 2025
  • 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT New York
  • MSCI, 250 Greenwich Street, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007, Skytop – 48th floor
About this event

Insurance investors face a complex landscape shaped by structural change—from physical climate risk to private market expansion, data overload, and rapid innovation. 

This MSCI-hosted forum on October 28th at our New York offices brings together senior insurance leaders, risk managers, and investment strategists to explore how insurers are navigating uncertainty and leading with innovation. 

 

Join us to explore: 

  • How physical climate risks and transition opportunities are being quantified, priced, and integrated into investment decisions 
  • The growing role of AI and analytics in asset allocation, stress testing, and forecasting 
  • How insurers are navigating private market exposure, illiquidity risk, and benchmarking needs 
  • Designed for insurance CIOs, risk leaders, and portfolio decision-makers, this event is expected to deliver practical insights and real-world use cases to support resilient, forward-looking strategies. 
Meet the speakers
Henry A. Fernandez
Henry A. Fernandez
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MSCI
Karim Berichi
Karim Berichi
Executive Director, Head of Private Credit Product, MSCI
Jay Dermody
Jay Dermody
Head of MSCI ONE and AI Products, MSCI
Luke Flemmer
Luke Flemmer
Managing Director, Head of Private Assets, MSCI
Xinxin Wang
Xinxin Wang
Executive Director, Sustainability & Climate Investment Solutions Research, MSCI
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Agenda

1:00 p.m. ・ Event registration

 

1:30 p.m. ・ Welcome and opening remarks

Henry A. Fernandez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MSCI
 

2:15 p.m. ・ Strategic Insights into the Private Credit Ecosystem 

Private assets are playing a larger role in diversified portfolios. This session will explore the evolving private credit ecosystem, focusing on how risk models are used to assess and manage credit exposure. Attendees will gain insights into the role of transparency and data in improving market confidence and decision-making. The discussion will also cover the emergence of private credit indexes and their impact on benchmarking and performance evaluation.

Luke Flemmer, Managing Director, Head of Private Assets, MSCI
Karim Berichi, Executive Director, Head of Private Credit Product, MSCI
 

3:00 p.m. ・ Networking break

 

3:15 p.m. ・ The Geography of Risk 

As climate and nature-related risks become increasingly localized, understanding where these risks occur is as vital as knowing what they are. This session will examine how geospatial and locational data are transforming asset-level assessments of physical climate and nature risks. Experts will highlight how this data enhances exposure measurement, supports resilience planning and uncovers new opportunities.

Xinxin Wang, Executive Director, Sustainability & Climate Investment Solutions Research, MSCI

 

4:00 p.m. ・ Next-Gen AI in Action: The future of predictive analytics and thematic data

This session explores how next-generation AI is transforming financial risk assessment—elevating predictive analytics, streamlining decision-making through automation, and accessing insights through the integration of unstructured data. We will share how MSCI is applying AI to identify emerging risks, reducing lag in information processing, and gaining a competitive edge in volatile markets as AI becomes more deeply embedded in investment workflows.

Jay Dermody, Head of MSCI ONE and AI Products, MSCI

 

5:15 p.m. ・ Closing remarks