ESG Semi-Annual Index Review

The MSCI ESG Indexes are designed to support common approaches to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, and help institutional investors more effectively benchmark to ESG investment performance as well as manage, measure and report on ESG mandates.  MSCI’s ESG Indexes also provide institutional investors with transparency into ESG sustainability and values alignment, together with the ability to compare holdings. Discover more

MSCI ESG Ratings provides insights into ESG risks and opportunities within multi-asset class 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)).

MSCI ESG Research provides in-depth research, ratings and analysis of the environmental, social and governance-related business practices of thousands of companies worldwide.

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MSCI ESG Fund Ratings is designed to help clients identify ESG risks and opportunities within their funds and compare them with industry peers and benchmarks.

Join the MSCI ESG Research team for insights into the latest news and world events with an ESG investing lens. Click to listen and subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher.

ESG Screened Indexes are designed for institutional investors & aim to exclude companies associated with controversial, civilian, nuclear weapons & tobacco, derive revenues from thermal coal & oil sands extraction or that are not in compliance with United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles