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MSCI is a leading provider of real estate investment tools providing critical business intelligence to institutional investors, real estate owners, managers, brokers and occupiers worldwide. MSCI's comprehensive suite of real estate product is unique in the industry. We have the full public to private index lens leveraging MSCI´S leading indexes, the strength of Barra performance and risk analytics and the IPD market data engine.

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We currently calculate more than 7,000 custom indexes for more than 700 clients globally, drawing from our database of more than 22,000 securities across more than 75 countries. Our custom indexes apply the same index construction, maintenance discipline, data reliability, global service and support that institutional investors have come to expect from our core index offerings.

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MSCI has provided insights and tools for global investing since the 1960s, when our developed market indexes gave investors the first efficient way to understand and pursue opportunity sets outside their home markets. Over the years, MSCI has continued to provide our clients with ongoing insights and tools for expanding their portfolios into new asset classes and geographies in developed, emerging and frontier markets.

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Equity factor investing was pioneered in the 1970s based on the research, data and analytics created by Barra – today part of MSCI. In recent years, MSCI has developed a broad range of indexes and analytical models that provide institutional investors with tools for evaluating factors and incorporating factor strategies into their portfolios.

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Multi-asset class risk and performance analytics powered by flexible technology that enables clients to manage risk, communicate results and make better investment decisions.

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As credit spreads have gradually declined, investors have increasingly been focusing their attention on more complex instruments including synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations in the search for yield. However, the risks of these investments — including the senior tranches — should not be overlooked.