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MSCI Choice ESG Screened Indexes
The MSCI Choice ESG Screened Indexes are free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted indexes that are designed to reflect the performance of companies that have above average ESG ratings relative to their sector peers.
Key Features:
- The indexes include companies that have an MSCI ESG Rating of ‘BBB’ or above
- They screen out companies involved in controversial business activities such as controversial weapons, fossil fuels, palm oil, tobacco, genetically modified organisms, nuclear weapons and civilian firearms etc.
- And they exclude companies that are involved in controversies (i.e. companies are required to have an MSCI ESG Controversies Score of 3 or above)
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ESG Ratings
How do MSCI ESG Ratings work? What are significant ESG risks? What does a poor rating look like? How can you use them?
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Additional Insights and Resources
ESG Ratings
ESG Ratings aim to measure a company’s resilience to long-term, financially relevant ESG risks.
Deconstructing ESG Ratings performance
Latest ESG paper deconstructs MSCI ESG Ratings to explore how environmental, social and governance factors performs by time horizon, sector and weighting.
ESG Ratings
ESG Ratings aim to measure a company’s resilience to long-term, financially relevant ESG risks.
Deconstructing ESG Ratings performance
Latest ESG paper deconstructs MSCI ESG Ratings to explore how environmental, social and governance factors performs by time horizon, sector and weighting.
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