A decade ago, when we first published our annual ESG Trends to Watch, climate change and the value of human and natural capital all made the list.

MSCI offers a focus on these funds to help investors understand the latest ESG trends and characteristics across more than 53,000 mutual funds and ETFs in our coverage universe.

Activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn is pushing McDonald’s to change the way it sources its pork by mounting a proxy contest, and the SEC’s Climate and ESG Task Force Issues its first enforcement action against Vale.

2020 brought lockdowns, shuttered businesses, layoffs, a world-wide work-from-home experiment and exposed long-time systemic issues and inequality. We dive into these social issues and examine their impact on investors with global ESG editorial director, Meggin Thwing Eastman.

Anthony Kruger, Director, EMEA Head of Factor ETFs and Hitendra Varsani, Executive Director, Global Solutions Research at MSCI discuss the latest factor updates and how investors can integrate factors and ESG to help improve long-term performance and reduce risk.

Assets allocated to ESG investments have boomed in recent years. While some may fear that accelerating allocations could lead to frothy valuations, research so far suggests this is mostly unwarranted. In 2021, we see both hype and skepticism about ESG giving way to acceptance and a more nuanced understanding of when and how ESG has shown pecuniary benefits — and when it hasn’t.

Holding long term investments requires understanding, identifying and managing financial risks and opportunities. Long term investors must regularly and rigorously assess the resilience of their asset allocation, portfolio construction and risk management decision-making processes.

A suite of tools to help institutional investors benchmark, measure and manage portfolio exposure to climate risk and identify low carbon investment opportunities.