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.

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.

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This quarterly Risk Monitor for Asset Owners reports on the risk and return behavior of five representative pension plans. This edition reports on Q4 2013.  We present the performance and risk of assets during the past year and past quarter, adding in liabilities to examine funding status and surplus risk. We apply stress tests and show the effects of the scenarios on both the asset portfolios and funding status.  Finally, we present the evolution of risk and return of the...

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This quarterly Risk Monitor for Asset Owners reports on the risk and return behavior of five representative pension plans. This edition reports on Q1 2014.  We present the performance and risk of assets during the past year and past quarter, adding in liabilities to examine funding status and surplus risk. We apply stress tests and show the effects of the scenarios on both the asset portfolios and funding status.  Finally, we present the evolution of risk and return of the...

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Research Paper

This quarterly Risk Monitor for Asset Owners reports on the risk and return behavior of five model pension plan types. This edition reports on Q2 2014. We represent the performance and risk of their assets over the past year and past quarter, adding in liabilities to examine funding status and surplus risk. We apply stress tests and show the effects of the scenarios on both the asset portfolios and plans' funding status. Finally, we present the evolution of risk and return of the asset...

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This quarterly Risk Monitor reports on the risk and return behavior of four representative pension plan types (US Public, US Corporate, UK Occupational, Netherlands). We present the performance and risk of assets held by these plans during the past year and past quarter, including liabilities, to examine funding status and surplus risk. We apply stress tests and show the effects of the scenarios on both the asset portfolios and plans’ funding status. Finally, we present the evolution of...

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