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The world is moving to ESG investing, reflecting a growing sentiment of how ESG considerations may affect portfolios and individual securities. This is coupled with the increasing concern over rising global temperatures from climate change and the need to align portfolios with a net-zero economy. MSCI provides a focus across more than 53,000 mutual funds and ETFs in our coverage universe funds to help investors understand the latest Climate and ESG characteristics and trends.
Transparency Reports
This year we will release regular reports analyzing funds within our coverage universe through an ESG and Climate lens.
Funds and the State of European Sustainable Finance
Funds and the State of European Sustainable Finance
We assess the degree of sustainability-related disclosures for European-domiciled funds, their performance on, and disclosure of, select adverse impact indicators, and exposure to sustainable investments.
Access ReportQ3 Spotlight: Thematic Funds
Thematic Funds
Thematic funds aim to invest in long-term trends that can range across social, environmental and technological realms, from millennial consumption to cloud computing. In our Q3 report we look at this fund universe through an ESG lens.
Access ReportMutual Funds
Mutual Funds
ESG funds account for just 4.3% of the mutual- funds universe, totalling over USD 2 trillion. But they are growing in number, and their use as an ESG integration tool is also becoming more established. We take a deeper look at this subset in the Q2 report.
Access ReportQ1 Spotlight: Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Globally, equity and bond (ETFs), experienced record demand in 2020. We explore the reasons behind this growth in this report.
Access ReportThe 20 Largest ESG Funds
The 20 Largest ESG Funds
Not all ESG funds are alike as their policies and resulting sustainability attributes can vary significantly. The 20 largest ESG funds in our coverage collectively accounted for approximately 13% of total assets under management globally in ESG equity funds. There was an almost even split between active and index-based fund investment approaches, with active funds accounting for over 57% of AUM.
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Research Report
Research ReportIn this report, we looked at the largest equity ESG funds globally, their holdings and ESG attributes as well as considerations when conducting ESG fund due diligence and selection.Access Report |
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Interactive ChartInvestors often look to see whether funds have energy-related holdings, which have often been exposed to higher carbon-emissions risk. You can use the interactive chart to compare the carbon intensity and stock allocations across the 20 largest ESG funds in our coverage universe.Explore the Chart |
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ESG Fund Ratings
MSCI ESG Fund Ratings aim to measure the resilience of mutual funds and ETFs to long-term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
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ESG Funds – A Global Shift in Investments
A global shift in attitudes across markets has caused a rise in investment in ESG funds.
Climate Exposure and Its Impact on a Client’s Portfolio
We can measure a fund or portfolio’s alignment to climate targets with an aggregated-budget approach.
New Frontiers in Carbon Footprinting: Private-Equity and -Debt Funds
Expansion-capital and venture-capital funds exhibited the lowest average carbon intensities.
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Some ESG Funds Are Not Like the Others
Despite the overall low allocation to energy, 11 funds both held energy stocks and exhibited a lower carbon intensity than those with no energy exposure.
Learn MoreDeconstructing ESG Ratings Performance
Risk and Return for E, S and G by Time Horizon, Sector and Weighting.
Read MoreQuantifying ESG fund performance
Investors who want to evaluate ESG’s impact on risk and return can use a risk model that integrates ESG.
Read the BlogThe 20 Largest ESG Funds footnotes
1 MSCI LLC ESG Research: Fund ESG Transparency Q1 Quarterly Report 2021 (February 2021)