Blog Post - The MSCI World and MSCI Emerging Markets indexes rose 12% and 9%, respectively, from January to March 2019. This contrasts sharply to the 2018 year-end losses. What stood out among the fast-moving market backdrop was the importance of keeping an eye on beta and what happened when losses reversed.

Blog: Emerging-market stocks generally are perceived to have lower governance standards than their developed-market counterparts. Less transparency is one factor behind this view. Some emerging-market companies may also disadvantage minority shareholders. How can active and index-based investors address these issues?

Blog post - Rejection of the Brexit deal by the U.K. Parliament along with a potentially difficult exit from the EU could have significant ramifications. Our stress test analysis looks at what a “No deal” vote would mean in the U.K. and for equity markets around the globe.

Blog post - Sector investing has gained wide traction in developed markets, but what about China? We analyzed whether Chinese sectors exhibited the three key attributes we’ve seen sector investors look for in the U.S. and elsewhere – low correlation, differences in fundamentals and geographic differences.

Blog post - Chinese equity prices have hardly been music to investors’ ears in 2018. The MSCI China A Onshore IMI Index has declined more than 25% in local currency terms through Oct. 31, with a relatively narrow differentiation of returns. Were there factors in this market that outperformed?

Blog post - China continues to open its capital markets to global investors and accessibility standards. If adopted, our recently launched consultation on increasing the weighting of China A shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index could boost China A shares’ weight in the index to 3.4% by May 2020.

Research Paper - We detail the biggest-ever structural change to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) in terms of market capitalization impact: the Telecommunication Services sector being broadened significantly and renamed Communication Services. This reflects the fact that the way people communicate, share information and entertain themselves – and the way companies have responded to this new dynamic – has significantly and fundamentally changed.