Custom Indexes

When building your strategy’s foundation, you shouldn’t have to trade quality for control — or speed for precision. With MSCI Custom Indexes, you don’t have to. We partner with you to go beyond benchmarks to build new products, personalize portfolios and align with regulations. Our goal is to help you design indexes across asset classes based on your unique vision, drawing on deep research-based insights and decades of index expertise so you can customize without compromise.

Powered by MSCI, tailored to your strategy

Flexibility

Build indexes with extensive customization capabilities aligned with your strategy across sustainability, factor, thematic, climate and multi-asset exposures.

Trusted quality

Leverage our F9 interactive platform for faster design and simulation backed by robust calculation methodologies and infrastructure for accurate1, replicable and scalable indexes.

Expertise

Turn your ideas into investable benchmarks with robust governance, high data quality and over 50 years of index experience and innovation.

A custom index is a benchmark designed with specific rules and criteria set by clients to reflect their unique strategy, objectives or constraints.

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How we can help you

MSCI Custom Indexes are more than benchmarks — they’re engines of your innovation, enabling you to incorporate investment views, strategy constraints or regulatory requirements with optimized precision.

Whether you’re setting policy, managing portfolios or launching products, our indexes are built to minimize the need to switch benchmarks as strategies evolve, helping you reduce costs, lower risks and simplify administration.

Asset owners
  • Align policy benchmarks and portfolio indexes with evolving investment objectives and criteria.
  • Gain flexibility to adjust criteria without disrupting long-term strategy.
  • Conduct performance analysis and attribution for institutional currency overlay mandates.
Active managers
  • Transform in-house strategies into investable indexes with built-in regulatory alignment and flexibility.
  • Build differentiated products that scale without operational strain.
  • Turn proprietary research into transparent, investable indexes.
Indexed managers
  • Develop differentiated index-linked products with tailored investability and liquidity rules.
  • Transform in-house strategies into investable indexes with built-in regulatory alignment and flexibility.
  • Enhance efficiency with MSCI’s infrastructure, data and robust methodology.
Wealth managers
  • Deliver personalized portfolios at scale through tailored index design.
  • Differentiate client offerings with thematic, sustainability or factor-driven customization.
Hedge funds
  • Replicate strategies and support index arbitrage opportunities with more accuracy.
  • Use custom benchmarks to quickly test, simulate and launch innovative strategies.
Structured products
  • Create more precise underlying indexes that capture targeted exposures.
  • Build indexes targeting specific investability and liquidity criteria.

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1 We have consistently maintained 99.9% accuracy rates for our indexes. “Accuracy rate” calculated based on the number of corrected data points in comparison to the total number of data points processed over one-month period. Corrected data points are identified through internal quality control procedures or through client feedback. Index corrections are subject to a 50bp correction threshold, Data for the period June 2024 through June 2025.