MSCI Insights Gallery, a dynamic new destination that helps investors understand the changing markets through informative, interactive data visualization, powered by MSCI tools and research.

MSCI Insights Gallery archive, a dynamic new destination that helps investors understand the changing markets through informative, interactive data visualization, powered by MSCI tools and research.

Since the surge in COVID-19-related market risk in March, investors’ perspective on risk might have evolved.

Sector composition and concentration in global equity markets changed dramatically over the past 20 years.

Cross-sectional volatility (CSV) measures the opportunity in stock selection as defined by the dispersion in stock returns.

The MSCI Factor Crowding Model quantitatively estimates the degree of crowding in factor strategies.

The Federal Reserve holds USD 2 trillion of the outstanding balance of all agency mortgage-backed securities -- or nearly 30% of the MBS market.

Click through to our plot to see how bond-market leverage and risk allocation between sectors may have impacted the performance of multi-asset-class portfolios.

Interact with our chart to see the probabilities of default implied in corporate-bond prices.

Marking five years since the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), MSCI ESG Research looked at the progress publicly traded companies have made toward aligning their products and operations with these global standards.