Indexes licensed as underlyings for structured products
Our indexes can help you bring structured products to market with more speed and confidence across equity, fixed income and thematic strategies. Powered by the MSCI custom index engine, you can customize at scale with our advanced real-time simulation and delivery capabilities — using globally-recognized indexes as the benchmark for your products.
Powering innovation in structured products
From thematic baskets to risk-control frameworks, MSCI offers flexible index design that adapts quickly to diverse investment goals and regulatory environments.
Access advanced simulation and delivery capabilities with our MSCI custom index engine offering real-time design tools, supported by transparent data and robust back-tested index histories.
Create innovative, rules-based indexes designed to enhance product credibility and drive engagement in competitive markets.
Why MSCI?
We apply decades of expertise in sustainability, climate and thematic design to anticipate evolving market trends. Our widely-adopted indexes serve as the foundation for structured products across market-cap and factor indexes, including momentum and minimum volatility approaches to risk control, multi-asset, sustainability, thematic and fixed income solutions.
They include volatility control, risk management overlays, thematic tilts, climate integration and other innovative approaches designed to help issuers identify opportunities. And our customizable methodologies enable you to adjust risk/return profiles to align with specific investor goals.
Market Cap
Flagship indexes such as the MSCI ACWI Index designed to represent and measure global equity markets as they evolve.
Factors
Built to represent factors, including quality, value and momentum, that have historically shown excess market returns over the long run.
Thematic
Reflect transformative forces shaping markets — from AI and robotics to energy transition.
Build your index, your way
The MSCI custom index engine is built to accelerate index customization — empowering investors to design and refine indexes that MSCI can launch quickly and at scale.
Customize your index in five easy steps:
- Universe and methodology — Define your market coverage and parent index framework.
- Criteria and screens — Apply factor, thematic, sustainability or regulatory filters.
- Currency and tax rates — Specify hedging needs, tax treatment and return type.
- History and rebalancing — Select history depth, rebalance dates and buffer rules.
- Data type and delivery — Choose index-level or constituent-level data and delivery format.
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