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Shale Gas and Hydraulic Fracturing in the US: Opportunity or Underestimated Risk?Shale gas presents a huge new potential investment opportunity and could possibly transform the US energy market. However, financial returns from shale gas face pressure due to emerging environmental liabilities, community opposition that limits access to resources, recoverable reserves uncertainties, and natural gas price volatility.Based on MSCI ESG Research’s assessment of companies’ performance on environmental issues, we believe that companies with poor historical performance...
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Listed and Private Real Estate : Putting the pieces back togetherA Study of the Drivers of European Listed Real Estate Performance in Association with the European Public Real Estate Association.
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Climate Action Could Lessen Physical Climate RisksA future that relies on fossil fuels could expose almost a quarter of the market value of companies in the MSCI ACWI IMI to the risks of severe physical climate impacts. Which were the most vulnerable sectors and what can be done to limit the risks?
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A Roadmap to Personalizing Model Portfolios: Scaling with Purpose
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Women on boards: 2019 progress reportOur annual update on women’s representation on corporate boards found a noticeable uptick in 2019: 20.0% of directors were women, up from 17.9% in 2018 and 17.3% in 2017. At the current pace, a 50/50 gender split among global directors might be reached by 2044. We have added other areas of interest including market- and sector-specific corporate gender diversity issues, expertise comparison and an overview of regulatory frameworks around gender diversity.
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Building Single-Factor PortfoliosIn this study, we focus on some of the issues investors face when constructing long-only non-optimized single-factor portfolios using simple heuristics-based rank-select-weight algorithms. In doing so, investors may ask: Should they start from a universe of securities with a fixed target-market-cap coverage or a fixed number of securities? Should they assess factor exposure based on single or multiple factor descriptors? How broad a subset of securities will they use from the underlying...
Portfolio Management Analytics Risk Management Analytics
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Investing in the SDGsThe 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) define the goal posts for delivering global sustainable development. While governments have developed the goals and signed up to their implementation, government action alone will not be enough to achieve them. This joint discussion paper from MSCI and the OECD proposes a framework for discussion around investment options and the potential role of institutional investors in achieving the SDGs and shares a proof-of-concept illustration of a...
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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
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Green Bonds and Climate — Towards a Quantitative MethodESG Climate VaR ESG Climate Solutions
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MSCI Blog
Capital for Climate Action Conference: Key TakeawaysMSCI’s Capital for Climate Action Conference brought together leaders from a diverse group of global organizations to untangle the latest developments in the net-zero transition. Here are some of the biggest takeaways.