ESG Semi-Annual Index Review

Climate. ESG bubbles. Disclosure. Social inequality. Biodiversity. Big and systemic themes will shape the ESG investment market in the coming year. These five ESG and climate trends we think will matter most in 2021.

The MSCI ESG Indexes provide institutional investors with effective tools to integrate ESG considerations in their investment process and portfolios.

How ESG Affects Equity Valuation, Risk and Performance. Guido Giese and Matt Moscardi discuss the relationship between companies with strong ESG characteristics and corporate financial performance.

MSCI ESG Metrics is designed to deliver a broad set of standardized ESG data and simple metrics that are comparable across a broad universe of 8,500 companies (the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index (IMI)).

How has integrating ESG considerations into the investment process affected performance?

Our latest insights

This week we talked about Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas and the proliferation of online gambling in the US.

What is ESG for? Why aren’t ESG ratings correlated between ratings providers? Is greenwashing a problem in the industry? Is ESG a scam?