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Investing globally enables investors to tap into new opportunities for growth. For those investors looking to target the U.S. market, MSCI has created a new, highly selective, rules-based index, the MSCI USA 50 Index.


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What is MSCI USA 50 Index?

The MSCI USA 50 Index is a stock market index designed to track the performance of the largest 50 securities in the U.S. equity market.1

This highly selective index approach could help investors seeking a more targeted index to deliver on their objectives. The actively traded securities that comprise the MSCI USA 50 Index are a proxy for U.S. stock performance and offers global investors the opportunity to simplify their U.S. equity exposure.

This index is part of a new index family, that offers target exposures to countries and regions using a transparent, rules-based methodology. MSCI applies a consistent fixed number index methodology across all countries and regions that differentiates our indexes.


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MSCI USA 50 Index

Watch our video to know how the MSCI USA 50 Index is constructed and can help investors looking to target the U.S. market.

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How is the MSCI USA 50 Index constructed?

The selection universe for this Index is the MSCI USA Investable Market Index (IMI) , which covers approximately 99% of the US equity market2, comprising more than 2,600 large, mid and small cap companies.

The constituents of the MSCI USA IMI Index are ranked in descending order of their free float-adjusted market capitalization. The 50 largest of these securities are selected to construct the MSCI USA 50. The resulting index constituents are weighted according to their free float-adjusted market capitalizations.

The MSCI USA 50 is fully reviewed on a quarterly basis with the objective of reflecting change in the underlying equity markets in a timely manner, while limiting undue index turnover.

For complete information, read more about our factsheet(PDF, 175 KB) (opens in a new tab) and methodology.(PDF, 175 KB) (opens in a new tab)

Why investors may consider the MSCI USA 50 Index?

  • The MSCI USA 50 Index provides exposure to globally recognizable large-cap U.S. companies
  • The concentrated exposure, only 50 names, may make it easier for investors to track and replicate the index in passive products
  • The Index constituents are among the most actively traded U.S. equities

How you can use this index?


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Attributing performance

The index can help active and passive investors assess the performance of their equity portfolios.

Investors can use our index as benchmarks to understand how their equity investments are delivering on or falling short of expectations.

Asset Allocation

As a policy benchmark for strategic asset allocation.

Financial Instruments

May be licensed to create financial products such as ETFs, ETNs, Structured Products and Derivatives or mutual funds.

Research

Investors can use the index data to enhance their stock level research and gain a deeper understanding of performance and risk drivers at the portfolio level.

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MSCI USA 50 INDEX - footnotes

1As represented by the MSCI USA IMI Index

2In terms of free float-adjusted market capitalization