Technology and DataPowering better portfolios through innovation
Innovation that drives clarity
Technology is the engine that powers MSCI’s research, data, models and analytics. For more than 50 years, we have helped investors understand risk and return. This foundation enables us to collect, compute and deliver insights across asset classes accurately and at scale, so clients can tackle the complex challenges of today’s global market.
Our experience in natural language processing and predictive analytics runs deep. Over the past decade, we have also used AI to enhance our content and data processes. We are now extending these capabilities across our data, models and platforms to improve efficiency, increase transparency in financial markets and support better decisions.
Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors. They help clients understand risk and opportunity, make better decisions and innovate with confidence.
Our proprietary datasets, methodologies and technology enable us to connect and analyze information across asset classes at scale. They help clients assess risk, measure market performance, understand private assets and navigate sustainability and climate challenges.
MSCI Research combines deep research expertise with new technologies to develop advanced models and data. By collaborating with clients, we deliver scalable solutions, through our research, data and technology capabilities, empowering clients to drive investment outcomes.
Data by the numbers
MSCI supports clients' complex, integrated workflows with flexible, scalable solutions. Our vast index calculations and datasets, spanning decades of historical data across equities, factors, fixed income, private assets and sustainability, are relied upon by investors worldwide. Additionally, our private and public assets coverage includes extensive datasets representing trillions in cumulative investments.
5.7B+
Weekly average positions processed in analytics1,3
1,000+
Data products
18M+
Securities maintained daily1,2
290K+
Indexes calculated daily
1,900+
APIs across all product lines1
500+
Data vendors1
70+
Third-party distribution partners1
1,300B+
Daily instrument pricings1
Transformation in practice
AI at MSCI
Discover how MSCI's AI solutions help investors surface deeper insights from verified data, proven methodologies and decades of expertise.
MSCI ONE
Bring MSCI's data, analytics and models together on our AI-enabled, cloud-based platform, with dashboards and visualizations that help you move from data to decision faster.
MSCI Connector
Bring all of MSCI into your AI workflows through one gateway, working across Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and MSCI ONE.
Research spotlight
Investment Trends in Focus: AI Is Driving Global Markets
Global equities are up 11.5%, but just two industry groups explain 86% of that gain. Ashley Lester and Axel Kilian on the market’s most concentrated rally in decades, and why bonds aren’t buying it.
Macro Scenarios in Focus: Assessing Portfolio Resilience to AI and Geopolitical Risks
We stress test a diversified portfolio against three macro scenarios: an AI productivity boom, a disorderly AI transition and a supply-side energy squeeze.
How the Biggest Investors are Finding Opportunity in AI
The gap between AI’s capabilities and institutional adoption is where today’s value is being created — and lost. Three insights for investors ready to act.
What Has the AI Sell-Off Looked Like for Credit?
Alphabet, Tesla and Meta led an AI-driven tech sell-off, but hyperscaler credit spreads barely moved. Equity-credit correlation, though, just spiked.
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1 As of December 2025.
2 Number of securities covered includes derivatives, options and warrants, of which volumes fluctuate as these derivatives mature and are issued.
3 Represents average number of Analytics client positions processed in rolling 7-day period.