MSCI helps pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors make better investment decisions through consistent frameworks and tools to assess their portfolios.

Holding long term investments requires understanding, identifying and managing financial risks and opportunities. Long term investors must regularly and rigorously assess the resilience of their asset allocation, portfolio construction and risk management decision-making processes.

Every investor may be affected by asset owners’ focus on climate change, private assets and advanced technology.

Jeremy Baskin is Head of Buy Side Client Segments, including asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds and wealth managers around the globe.

MSCI is a leader in providing tools to help asset managers build and manage better portfolios. Asset owners use our research, data, benchmarks and multi-asset class risk management tools.

The new MSCI ESG Universal Indexes are a modern way of indexing, and are designed to address the needs of asset owners (who also classify themselves as universal owners), who may look to enhance their exposure to ESG while maintaining a broad and diversified universe to invest in.

Our survey of institutional investors showed that larger firms are focused on longer term industry trends, while smaller firms are more impacted by shorter-term issues like costs and skills shortages. What’s next on the priority list for the largest asset owners, and how can smaller ones keep up?

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