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MSCI Blog
石油・ガスがリバウンドするも、ESG指数はアウトパフォームIn 2021, oil and gas stocks bounced back after five years of weak performance. However, leading MSCI ESG Indexes, which often have lower weights to high-carbon emission industries such as oil and gas, were resilient last year. What drove performance?
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MSCI Blog
Despite Oil & Gas’s Rebound, ESG Indexes OutperformedIn 2021, oil and gas stocks bounced back after five years of weak performance. However, leading MSCI ESG Indexes, which often have lower weights to high-carbon emission industries such as oil and gas, were resilient last year. What drove performance?
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MSCI Blog
Personalizing Climate-Focused Wealth Management PortfoliosA climate-first approach can help wealth managers tailor portfolios to the unique preferences of clients who want their investments to slow climate change or create positive impact while furthering their financial objectives and appetite for risk.
ESG Ratings ESG Climate Solutions ESG Indexes
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Research Report
Deconstructing ESG Ratings Performance: Risk and Return for E, S And G by Time Horizon, Sector and WeightingIndexes ESG Products & Services ESG Indexes ESG Ratings Research
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MSCI Blog
Is ESG Investing a Price Bubble? Probably Not.Inflows into ESG funds have soared in recent years and months, in part motivated by outperformance since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. But have these inflows become a self-fulfilling prophecy, creating an ESG bubble?
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Research Report
Aligning Portfolios with the Paris AgreementThe pressure on institutional investors to act on climate change and demonstrate its influence on their decision-making and portfolio construction continues to grow. Increasingly, the focus is on the alignment of client investment strategies with the decarbonization pathways required to deliver the global 1.5oC increase targeted by the Paris Agreement. This alignment may be achieved by overweighting companies on a credible path to decarbonization or offering green solutions, while in contrast...
ESG Climate Solutions Research and Screening ESG Products & Services ESG Indexes
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Research Report
Combining E, S, and G Scores: An Exploration of Alternative Weighting SchemesHow an overall ESG rating is constructed can significantly impact its usefulness. We tested two approaches: equal weighting and backward optimization. Equally weighting E, S, and G pillar scores across sectors showed less financial significance than the stand-alone G pillar score — that is, without E and S scores — over the 13-year study period. Backward optimization showed greater significance than stand-alone G scores but may underestimate the importance of ESG indicators to financial...
ESG Ratings ESG Indexes ESG Products & Services
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MSCI Blog
ESG in Mexico: At a Fork in the Road?Mexican companies’ ESG risk-mitigation practices have come a long way over the past decade, but there has been some slippage over the past two years. We examine the current status and why investors may want to pay attention.
ESG Indexes ESG Products & Services Emerging Markets Indexes
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MSCI Blog
Is There a Green-to-Fossil-Fuel Premium?As investors evaluate the possible reallocation of capital around the transition toward a low-carbon future, we analyzed the characteristics and performance of companies engaged in green versus carbon-intensive activities. Was there evidence of a “green-to-fossil-fuel premium”?
ESG Products & Services MSCI ESG Indexes ESG Indexes Environmental Indexes GICS MSCI Sector Indexes
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Research Report
Climate Change and Low-Carbon Risks and Opportunities in ChinaA transition to a low-carbon economy could alter the risk-return profile for many industries. The MSCI Climate Change Indexes aim to be practical tools to assist institutional investors in reflecting these potential changes in their investment strategies. They seek to do so by increasing the index weight for providers of low-carbon solutions and decreasing the weight of companies negatively exposed to such changes while seeking to maintain broad market exposure. In July 2020, MSCI launched...
Indexes ESG Products & Services ESG Climate Solutions ESG Indexes