Financial News: US equities indices are poised for a revamp to keep up with the evolving nature of communications.
 

The Wall Street Journal: Car makers are racing into electric vehicles, but they may not be fast enough to avoid fat European emissions penalties

Business Insider: Modern emerging markets will celebrate their 30th birthday on December 31, 2017, the anniversary of the creation of the MSCI EM Index.

Financial News: To make the cryptocurrency more sustainable, vested interests would have to be confronted.
 

Asian Investor: The Singapore-based deputy director for investment and wealth management at Axa Insurance is adding funds in both areas in response to rising investor demand.

 

The Wall Street Journal: MSCI cautioned in an August 2016 report that Equifax was ill-prepared to face the ‘increasing frequency and sophistication of data breaches’.

The Washington Post: In the world of executive compensation, one idea has long been considered gospel. Chief executive pay, companies say, is tied to the returns they produce for shareholders, and the "pay for performance" concept is used to defend the lofty stock-based compensation that makes up the majority of most large public companies' pay packages.

The Wall Street Journal: The study, from investment research firm MSCI Inc., compared 10 years of stock-market returns at 423 U.S. companies to the compensation their CEOs received over that period. It found highly paid CEOs among the worst performers and vice versa, even counting market gains on their equity compensation.

Fund Intelligence: Trading data provider IHS Markit and portfolio analytics firm MSCI are working together on a technology offering aimed at helping fund companies comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s so-called liquidity rule.

Risk.net: MSCI’s historical real-time data could be used in backtesting strategies, pricing exotic options.

South China Morning Post: Global equity indices compiler also warns it’s not happy with current high level of trading suspensions.

Asian Investor: There are any number of reasons why the spread of environment, social and governance investing seems inevitable, argues Henry Fernandez, CEO of the index provider.
 

Asian Investor: In the first of a two-part series, MSCI chief Henry Fernandez says the index provider aims to boost its Asia headcount as part of an effort to expand lagging regional revenues.

 

The Edge KL: One of the most defining events in ther next 10 or 20 years in the financial economy is the integration of China's capital markets into the global markets.

CNBC: Henry Fernandez, CEO of MSCI, says the decision to include China A-shares in the MSCI EM index was based on the success of the mainland's stock connect programs.

Bloomberg Canada: Henry Fernandez, CEO of MSCI joins Bloomberg TV Canada’s Lily Jamali to discuss interest in emerging market assets and changes on the horizon for the MSCI Emerging Market Index..

Bloomberg: Henry Fernandez, chairman and chief executive officer at MSCI, discusses investing in socially responsible assets, the trends he's seeing, better corporate governance and dual class structures. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."

CNBC: CNBC's Bob Pisani talks to Sebastien Lieblich, MSCI global head of index management research, about increasing China mainland stocks in its indices.

Bloomberg: China's domestic equities will join MSCI's benchmark indexes after three failed attempts, a landmark step in the nation’s integration with the global financial system. MSCI Chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez weighs in on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."