Thematic Exposure StandardView your portfolio through a thematic lens to identify new opportunities.
Gain insights into the megatrends shaping our future
Gauge a company’s exposure to each theme and gain a better understanding of what may drive its future returns.
Create differentiated strategies by incorporating securities with greater exposure to a theme or set of themes.
Backtest investment strategies and assess how theme tilts have evolved over time.
Evaluate thematic impact on performance and risk while complementing factor, industry and country analysis.
Provide choice to your investors by creating unique investment strategies.
Building more forward-looking portfolios
We help investors identify, measure and leverage their portfolios’ exposure to long-term, structural macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological trends. The MSCI Thematic Exposure Standard enables you to understand how your portfolio is linked to the critical themes of life sciences, transformative technologies, energy efficiency, robotics and the digital economy.
Support investment process
Strengthen security research, portfolio construction, risk management and reporting by assessing exposure to themes across thousands of global securities.
Tap into societal shifts
Capture new themes as markets and economies evolve and societal shifts arise.
Differentiate your strategy
Integrate a differentiated lens into your analysis and identify the companies most likely to have their returns impacted by specific themes.
Features and capabilities
The Thematic Exposure Standard is designed to help you better understand investment risk and build more effective portfolios by providing you access to company-level thematic exposures.
Extensive coverage
We systematically evaluate the exposure of roughly 40,000 global securities to structural trends.1
Continuous evolution
We update our research to ensure our themes remain relevant as they evolve and add new themes as they appear.
Flexible access
Access data through files, APIs and MSCI analytics platforms.
Exposing themes at the security level
Research and resources
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1 As of September 30, 2024.