MSCI in Practice:

Understanding How Your Firm's ESG Ratings Impact Index Inclusion and Capital Access

For corporate officers — Heads of IR, CFOs, and Chief Sustainability Officers — sustainability performance is no longer a reporting obligation. It is a capital markets signal. MSCI ESG Ratings, climate transition assessments, and peer benchmarks shape which indexes your company is included in, how much passive capital tracks your stock, and ultimately your cost of capital. 

Yet for most corporate teams, these frameworks operate out of view. When your ESG Rating moves, when a rebalancing adds or removes you from an index, or when your climate transition profile is reclassified, it can shift hundreds of millions in passive AUM — without a single call from an investor. 

In this virtual session, MSCI experts showed you exactly how those mechanisms work, walked through two real-world case studies where corporate decisions drove material changes in index inclusion and passive capital flows, and demonstrated how MSCI's ESG Solicited Ratings, Corporate Sustainability Insights Plus (CSI+), and Index Composition Viewer (ICV) can help you see yourself the way investors see you — and act with confidence. 

Watch now to learn how to move from passive disclosure to active capital market positioning.