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MSCI Nexus: How next-generation technology will solve today’s most important investment challenges
Data and technology are transforming the investment industry. Sophisticated investors worldwide are challenging age-old processes and accelerating the adoption of new technologies to drive a step-change in alpha generation, risk management, customization, and new offerings – all key to staying ahead of the competition.
At MSCI, we believe that harnessing and leveraging new technology and data is the defining opportunity of our business and that we have an essential role to play in supporting the transformation of investment markets. Accordingly, we invite you to join our inaugural Nexus Conference exploring the interplay between the latest technologies and the latest investment solutions.
We will examine how to unlock the power of finance with technological innovations and what a reimagined role of technology means for investors. We will explore how to build better portfolios, manage risk, and capitalize on the opportunities afforded by implementing the latest advancements in data and technology.
Who should attend? Senior leaders of investment firms, Chief Technology Officers, Chief Investment Officers, and anyone else interested in the future of investing and the role of technological innovation in driving it.
Register NowMar 9 2022
Virtual Platform
Time
8:00 a.m. PST
11:00 a.m. EST
4:00 p.m. GMT
The on demand event will be
available on March 10th in the
APAC time zone.
Location
Virtual Platform
Agenda
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8:00 a.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. EST | Welcome and Opening Remarks Baer Pettit, President and Chief Operating Officer, MSCI |
8:02 a.m. PST / 11:02 a.m. EST | Keynote: What’s ahead? The investment technology and data revolution Advancements in technology and demand for data are disrupting risk and return analysis and transforming the portfolio construction process. Cutting-edge innovations in cloud, natural language processing, data lake, data warehousing, and the end-to-end user experience are ushering in an era of transparency, liquidity, efficiency and customization. This keynote session will address the following questions:
Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of the Microsoft Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft |
8:45 a.m. PST / 11:45 a.m. EST | Industry leaders speak out: Leveraging data to unleash opportunity Data is the lifeblood of our industry, but synthesizing large amounts of data to balance performance, risk, sustainability, and climate impact amidst evolving governance regulations is becoming ever more complicated. As a result, investors need to reduce the complexity of managing large amounts of data across asset classes so that they can focus on generating alpha. This session will address the following questions:
Marco Argenti, Co-Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs |
9:30 a.m. PST / 12:30 p.m. EST | What’s new? Innovations in data management, climate analytics, and custom index-building This session will look closely at how investors can capitalize on the technology and data revolution to create better portfolios with MSCI’s latest and upcoming advancements. Learn how to leverage an API and data-rich financial infrastructure that aims to reshape the investment ecosystem. Explore enhanced climate tools and dashboards that are advancing investor sustainability efforts. Preview our applications to help investors design, simulate, analyze and license custom indexes. Come learn about our newly developed Investment Solutions as a Service (ISaaS) offerings- Developer Community, Data Explorer, Climate Lab and Index Builder. Marion de Marcilliac, Executive Director, ESG Products, MSCI |
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Event Speakers

Sanjay Nagamangalam
Executive Director, Program Management Lead for Data Technologies & OneMSCI Platform | MSCI
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