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MSCI’s research organization is multi-disciplinary team made up of over 200 professionals globally specializing in ESG, Factor, Fixed Income, Global Equities, and Multi-Asset Class investing.
A more politicized Fed? The market yawns
A consensus has emerged that the Federal Reserve will lower rates in the coming months, but investors remain uncertain over the timing and magnitude of the cuts. What impact could three rate-cut scenarios have on markets?
Factor allocation to asset allocation
Our framework looks through asset classes to factors — the underlying drivers of risk and returns.
Are rates and equities losing their balance?
For most of the past two decades, a benevolent relationship between bonds and equities has provided a hedge for asset allocators. We used our macroeconomic model to examine whether this risk protection could disappear in a secular shift.
A more politicized Fed? The market yawns
A consensus has emerged that the Federal Reserve will lower rates in the coming months, but investors remain uncertain over the timing and magnitude of the cuts. What impact could three rate-cut scenarios have on markets?
Factor allocation to asset allocation
Our framework looks through asset classes to factors — the underlying drivers of risk and returns.
Are rates and equities losing their balance?
For most of the past two decades, a benevolent relationship between bonds and equities has provided a hedge for asset allocators. We used our macroeconomic model to examine whether this risk protection could disappear in a secular shift.
Related research & insights
Related research & insights
Real estate may be yielding less than you thought
Real estate may be yielding less than you thought
Blog post: Do investors fully appreciate how much capex their portfolios require to generate attractive yields, and how doing so may help them gain a better understanding of their portfolio’s income profile?
Factors’ active role in portfolio construction
Factors’ active role in portfolio construction
Research: As important systematic sources of risk and return, factors play a vital role in building, maintaining and measuring actively managed equity portfolios. Investors and technology continue to grow more sophisticated, which has given rise to new ways of gathering, sorting and analyzing information — and new investment approaches.
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Index
MSCI indexes are built on our Modern Index Strategy, which provides consistent treatment across all markets and ensures best practices in investability and replicability, avoiding benchmark misfit and uncompensated risks.
Analytics
Our Analytics offers a full view of risk and return with content and tools to help understand market, credit, liquidity and counterparty risk across all major asset classes, spanning all time horizons.
ESG
MSCI ESG Research measures and models environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk to provide critical insights that can help investment managers understand how ESG can impact the long-term risk and return profile of their investments.
Real estate investing
Real Estate research and business intelligence provide tools and insights to institutional investors and real estate owners, managers, brokers and occupiers worldwide on public and private real estate assets.