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2021 ESG Trends to WatchIndexes ESG Products & Services Portfolio Management Analytics
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A Framework for Attributing Changes in Portfolio Carbon FootprintESG Climate VaR ESG Governance Metrics ESG Sustainable Impact Metrics ESG Climate Solutions
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Harvesting Equity Yield: Understanding Factor InvestingEver since central banks slashed interest rates in response to the Global Financial Crisis, many institutional and retail investors turned to high dividend-paying equities to meet their needs for income. However, a naïve high-yielding equity strategy can expose itself to various “yield traps,” such as those stemming from temporarily high earnings, high payouts or low stock price. We find that the yield factor has tended to perform well during a structurally low and rising interest rate...
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Constructing Low Volatility StrategiesLow volatility is one of the few factors that have historically performed well in turbulent markets. Moreover, over long periods of time, this defensive strategy has produced a premium over the market, contravening one of the most basic theories in finance — that one should not be rewarded with greater returns for taking less than market risk. Since the global financial crisis hit in 2008, low volatility has garnered increased attention from institutional investors. In this paper, we explore...
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MSCI Insights - March 2015The newly titled MSCI Insights is a monthly publication where we provide commentary on the market using MSCI Barra Equity Models, the MSCI Macroeconomic Model, the RiskMetrics Factor Model and MSCI Indexes.
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2022 年 ESG 趋势展望
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MSCI Barra Yearbook 2008
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What’s Your Factor Footprint?As the more alarmist discussion of factor meltdowns due to crowding has dissipated, institutional investors have turned toward understanding the investment capacity of factor-based strategies. The key question is to gauge how much capital can be invested in funds that replicate factor indexes before their return expectations diminish to unattractive levels. In this Research Insight, we use characteristics of factor indexes to gauge their capacity, using the MSCI Minimum Volatility Index as a...
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Factor Investing and ESG IntegrationIntegrating ESG criteria into equity portfolios raises important portfolio construction questions. For example, what is the impact of ESG on portfolio performance and characteristics? How does it alter the risk profile and the factor exposures of portfolios? How does it affect institutional investors’ ability to pursue their investment strategy? Our results show that integrating ESG criteria into passive strategies generally improved risk-adjusted performance over the period 2007 to...
Indexes ESG Products & Services Portfolio Management Analytics
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APAC Climate Action Progress Report