MSCI in Practice: Managing Transition Risk and Opportunity in Portfolios
MSCI in Practice: Managing Transition Risk and Opportunity in Portfolios
About this event
Asset owners are increasingly focused on how portfolios are positioned for financially-material transition risks and opportunities. Beyond targets and carbon emissions, comparing portfolios through a consistent transition framework can support oversight and strategic allocation decisions, while helping identify opportunities and protect against downside disruption.
Join MSCI experts for a practical discussion on how transition risk and opportunities may impact portfolios.
In this webinar, we:
- Discuss how transition thinking is evolving and what it may mean for asset-owner oversight.
- Examine how funds and portfolios differ across two dimensions, transition pressure and transition readiness, and how managing this trade-off has been associated with differences in historical performance outcomes.
- Demonstrate how MSCI’s Energy Transition portfolio dashboard can help compare portfolios and benchmark managers using a common language.
Meet the speakers

Guido Giese
Head of Sustainability & Climate Solutions Research, MSCI

Chris Cote
Executive Director, Energy Transition R&D Lead, MSCI
Jamie Nulph
Executive Director Sustainability & Climate Consultants, MSCI