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Press Release
CalSTRS Chooses MSCI ESG Research for ESG IntegrationPDF
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MSCI Blog
Pursuing ESG Standards and DiversificationMany of the world’s largest institutional investors are integrating ESG standards into their investment strategies. But they face a challenge: Excluding every objectionable firm or selecting only ESG (environmental, social and governance) leaders can slash the number of acceptable stocks by half while foreclosing on opportunities for dialogue and engagement. How can institutions implement ESG principles without sacrificing diversification or abandoning efforts to improve corporate conduct?
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MSCI Blog
CAN ESG ADD ALPHA?Interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) mandates has grown considerably over the past few years, but some institutional investors remain concerned that inclusion of ESG factors may come at the cost of weaker risk-adjusted returns. Our research shows that this is not necessarily the case.
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MSCI Blog
2021 ESG Trends to WatchClimate. ESG bubbles. Disclosure. Social inequality. Biodiversity. The topics don’t get much bigger — or more systemic. Here’s our analysis of the five ESG trends that will matter most to companies and their investors in 2021.
ESG Ratings ESG Climate Solutions ESG Climate VaR ESG Screening (BISR)
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MSCI Blog
2020 ESG trends to watchESG themes are long-term, but some can emerge with sudden force. We are watching five trends we believe will unfold in 2020 to catapult ESG investing into the new decade.
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MSCI Blog
ESG trends to watch in 2019The long haul many are bracing for has already started for ESG investors. Each of our five ESG trends to watch in 2019 contain potentially overlooked costs – and opportunities.
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MSCI Blog
Looking inside ESG indexesMany investors want to stick to their values or beliefs, as well as meet certain financial objectives. How can ESG indexes help them address these goals?
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Research Paper
ESG investing in emerging marketsRecent studies by MSCI ESG Research LLC have shown historical positive links between environmental, social and governance considerations and corporate financial performance. Because investors might still question whether ESG historically added value in emerging markets, where companies’ consideration of ESG risks is a more recent phenomenon, we compared the performance of four ESG indexes to their MSCI emerging-market parent. Overall, we found that despite emerging-market companies’ tending...
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Research Paper
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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Research Paper
Understanding MSCI ESG IndexesThis paper explains the different methodologies investors can use to integrate ESG considerations into a benchmark, assess their differences in terms of financial and ESG characteristics and understand potential trade-offs. In the financial industry, benchmarks are used at a strategic level — i.e., as policy benchmarks for defining the eligible investment universe or helping investors determine asset allocations — as well as at an implementation level — i.e., as a performance benchmark for...
Indexes ESG Products & Services