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Green Bonds and Climate — Towards a Quantitative Method

Jan 1, 2024

While examining use of proceeds remains a key element of analyzing green bonds, we highlight four additional metrics to assess these bonds and their issuers in a more quantitative way. They offer a new set of lenses with which to tackle the analysis.

Research Report

An Investor's Guide to Nature and Biodiversity Risks and Impacts

Dec 15, 2023

Investors thinking about biodiversity are asking questions such as, how do I know which holdings are most vulnerable to biodiversity loss? And, can I measure biodiversity risk exposure across my portfolio? We aim to help them start finding answers. 

Research Report

COP28: Key Takeaways for Investors from the Global Climate Summit

Dec 14, 2023

COP28 concluded with an agreement for countries to transition away from fossil fuels, marking a historic pivot away from the primary sources of energy that have powered society for nearly 200 years. How can countries — and investors — address these goals? 

Research Report

Understanding Institutional Investors’ Perspective on ESG Ratings

Dec 4, 2023

Understanding ESG risks and opportunities from the perspective of investors could be invaluable for issuers. We examine how investors think about ESG factors and how they incorporate them into their investment processes. 

MSCI Blog

How Canadian Asset Owners Are Seizing Investment Opportunities as Risks Evolve

Nov 16, 2023 Henry Fernandez, Ashley Lester, Raman Aylur Subramanian, Chris Cote

Attendees at the recent MSCI Canadian Institutional Investor Forum discussed and debated the challenges and opportunities created by massive structural, macroeconomic, societal and technological shifts in the investment landscape.

MSCI Blog

Sustainable-Debt Issuers on a More Credible Decarbonization Path, but Is It Enough?

Nov 13, 2023 Jakub Malich, Vishakha Pandey, Anett Husi

Corporate decarbonization targets without capital commitments can lack credibility, and issuers of labeled corporate bonds led other bond issuers on climate targets. But just how well did these issuers perform in our assessment? 

Research Report

Sovereign Bonds and Climate

Oct 18, 2023

Good emissions data is essential for any detailed sovereign-bond climate analysis. In this paper, we address some key questions around how best to quantify sovereign bonds’ financed emissions and climate-transition risk.

Research Report

Understanding MSCI ESG Indexes: Methodologies, Facts and Figures

Oct 11, 2023

We explore the methodologies behind the MSCI ESG Indexes to see how they integrate ESG considerations. We also assess the differences of these approaches in terms of the financial and ESG characteristics to understand potential trade-offs. 

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Foundations of ESG Investing

Foundations of ESG Investing

How ESG integration has affected benchmarks and index-based, factor and active portfolios.

ESG Fund Ratings

ESG Fund Ratings

MSCI ESG Fund Ratings aim to measure the resilience of mutual funds and ETFs to long term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

ESG Now

ESG Now

The latest ESG news and research, from climate change to corporate action, in this weekly podcast.