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Nearly half of listed companies have set a climate target. More than a third have disclosed at least some of their Scope 3 emissions. Yet listed companies are putting carbon into the atmosphere at a rate that would warm the planet 2.7°C above preindustrial levels this century. The latest edition of MSCI’s periodic report details the gap between corporate climate ambition and global temperature goals.

While there is a robust set of ESG data and metrics to analyze portfolios, many investors want to know how much their ESG strategies are contributing to overall portfolio risk and return. You can now access updated insights from past research with answers to some of the most common client questions.

Thematic investing is a top-down investment approach that relies on research to explore macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological trends. These trends encompass long-term, structural shifts arising from new business models, disruptive technologies and changing consumer tastes and behaviors—megatrends that have the potential to change whole industries and shape the way we will live, work, travel and treat disease in the future.

This is the third instalment of our ‘Fact(or) Fiction?’ series, which aims to debunk some common myths around factor investing. In this instalment, we explore the simple concepts that underpin factor investing.

An objective gauge of the contribution by the world’s public companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.

An objective gauge of the contribution by the world’s public companies to total carbon emissions and their progress toward a net-zero economy.

We estimate the size of the global professionally managed market in 2022, when the speed and magnitude of interest-rate increases worldwide triggered a dramatic decline in transactional volumes.