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MSCI has applied pioneering ideas to real-world investment challenges for more than four decades. We helped introduce the world to global investing in the 1960s with the creation of the first developed and emerging markets indexes.

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No one could have predicted just how disruptive and broad-based the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was going to be. However, the ensuing crisis does highlight how real estate is inextricably linked to other financial markets, the broader economy and society around it.

Interaction between MSCI ESG Research and the companies and fixed income issuers we rate continues to expand at a rapid pace.

Increasingly institutional investors are integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their investment processes. Our research is designed to help investors identify risks and opportunities, and focus in on key ESG performance drivers.