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Foundations of ESG Investing – Part 3: Integrating ESG into Indexed Institutional PortfoliosAccording to recent surveys, asset owners’ have shifted their main focus to ESG’s financial benefits, as opposed to social benefits. In the third part of this paper, we discuss how ESG can be integrated into indexed allocations using MSCI ESG Ratings, which provided better risk-adjusted returns from August 2010 to December 2017 than the MSCI ACWI Index. We used existing best-in-class selection-based index methodologies (the MSCI ESG Leaders Index) for the creation of hypothetical global and...
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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Introducing the Multi-Portfolio Attribution Model in BarraOneThis Product Insight introduces the Multi-Portfolio Attribution model in BarraOne. For Asset Owners investing in pension plans, Asset Managers investing in asset allocation portfolios and fund-of-fund managers who all invest across multiple asset classes, strategies and managers, the model captures the following results in a single analysis: the performance of both the Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) and the investment portfolio; how much value was added by tactically deviating from the...
Portfolio Management Analytics Risk Management Analytics
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Rising Interest Rates - Funding Consequences for Pensions
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Women on Boards: Global Trends in Gender DiversityMany institutional investors are increasingly focused on the gender composition of company boards. Our latest research shows that companies in the MSCI World Index with strong female leadership generated a Return on Equity of 10.1% per year versus 7.4% for those without, as of September 9, 2015, though we could not establish causality. We found that companies lacking board diversity suffered more governance-related controversies than average. Global asset owners are promoting a 30% global...
ESG Products & Services Research and Screening
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Using factors in international investingOver the last decade, asset owners have implemented factor investment programs with a focus on domestic markets. Increasingly, they are also funding equity factor programs in international markets. Two catalysts are driving this trend. First, there has been a steady erosion in asset owners’ home biases, leading to more indexed and active international mandates. Second, investment committees and boards of trustees have become more comfortable with using factors as a complement to core indexed and traditional active allocations.
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Managing Material Risk
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Multi-Portfolio Attribution Across All Asset Classes, Strategies, Managers And Fund-Of-Funds
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实施净零排放:资产所有者指南
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The MSCI Minimum Volatility Indexes: 10 Years On2018 marked the 10-year anniversary of the MSCI Minimum Volatility Indexes. Launching just prior to the global financial crisis, which caused sharp equity market falls, and the indexes’ behavior “out-of-sample” since launch have led to adoption by a large number of asset owners and the indexes’ serving as the basis for a wide range of ETFs that have gathered significant assets. Here, we contrast 10 years of live data with the previous 10 years of backtesting, investigating changes in the...
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MSCI Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Factor Model ValidationThe MSCI Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Factor Model introduces several major advances in risk modeling, including systematic MAC strategy factors, a next-generation fixed income model, and improved equity models. This document demonstrates the value of the MSCI MAC Factor Model in forecasting risk, based on (1) visual inspection of the risk forecasts and realized returns, and (2) statistical tests. The MSCI MAC Factor Model is evaluated on an absolute (stand-alone) basis, and is also compared with...
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