The MSCI QSE 20 ESG Index is designed to represent the performance of the top 20 securities within the MSCI Qatar IMI that demonstrate the best ESG profile.

MSCI’s latest ESG paper deconstructs MSCI ESG Ratings to explore how environmental, social and governance factors performs by time horizon, sector and weighting.

Ten emerging ESG trends for companies and investors for 2022.

Increasingly institutional investors are integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their investment processes. Our research is designed to help investors identify risks and opportunities, and focus in on key ESG performance drivers.

With ESG becoming a key consideration within investment process, MSCI experts Hitendra Varsani and Guido Giese talk about the impact of ESG and how factors and risk models provide deeper insight.

This week we talk about the worsening of antibiotic resistance, and what ESG investing REALLY is.

The new MSCI ESG Universal Indexes are a modern way of indexing, and are designed to address the needs of asset owners (who also classify themselves as universal owners), who may look to enhance their exposure to ESG while maintaining a broad and diversified universe to invest in.

MSCI’s ESG ratings are designed for one purpose: to measure a company’s resilience to financially material environmental, societal and governance risks.

You can use the interactive chart to compare the carbon intensity and stock allocations across the 20 largest ESG funds in our coverage universe.

ESG-labeled bonds not only grew as a market in the years since 2014; they became increasingly complex, as their objectives broadened beyond environmental ones alone.