MSCI in Practice: Physical Climate Risk Intelligence for Financial Decisions Stronger Together: MSCI + First Street
- Sept. 10, 2026
- 9:00 a.m. EDT New York • 2:00 p.m. BST London
- Location: Virtual Platform
About this event
Extreme weather is no longer a side note in financial analysis — it is a daily input into capital allocation. Company filings citing extreme weather as a material risk are up 282%, profit warnings linked to extreme weather are up 147%, and companies are now more than 6.5x as likely to issue a profit warning following an extreme weather event than they were two decades ago. According to MSCI Research, listed companies worldwide face an estimated USD 1.3 trillion in annual losses from physical climate hazards.
MSCI's acquisition of First Street brings together MSCI's institutional-grade geospatial and climate risk platform with First Street's physics-based, peer-reviewed hazard modeling. The combined offering delivers quantified, financially relevant physical risk assessment at any geographic coordinate, across more than 2 billion structures worldwide.
Join us on September 10 to see what this combination means for how you assess, inform pricing, and manage physical risk.
What you'll learn:
- How MSCI and First Street are coming together to strengthen physical risk intelligence and what it means for your existing climate and risk workflows.
- The research behind the numbers: why physical risk is now a direct input into investment, lending and underwriting decisions.
- How the platform works end to end from screening exposure across MSCI’s mapped universe of 4.5 million asset locations and 780,000 companies, to drilling down into any structure worldwide using First Street’s geospatial “digital twin” data.
- A live workflow walkthrough showing how physical risk analysis can be applied across financial processes from origination to portfolio monitoring.
