Powering Better Investment Decisions

At MSCI, we seek to bring clarity to dynamic and increasingly complex financial markets. Relentless innovation is in our DNA. Seeing the impact of those innovations on global economies drives us to continue building forward. We are powered by the belief that ROI also means return on community, sustainability and the future that we all share. Healthy economies stimulate job creation, encourage infrastructure development and generate the returns necessary to improve living standards for everyone, everywhere.

Investing today requires informed decisions that contribute to a better world.

MSCI. Powering better investment decisions.

We create innovative products and services that power better investment decisions. We provide investors with critical performance measurement and risk management data and analytics. Through our environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and applications, we deliver insights, analytics and tools to support investment processes that incorporate sustainability considerations.

MSCI has been at the forefront of providing data, research and other tools to help enable ESG integration across the whole investment process and is committed to further advance solutions to facilitate and accelerate sustainable investing. Our research, ratings, indexes, models and portfolio analytics empower the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors in their drive to integrate ESG considerations into their investment processes. MSCI also promotes ESG transparency across the investment value chain by making publicly available our ESG ratings of the most commonly owned companies worldwide, as well as our methodologies for determining ESG company ratings and constructing ESG indexes.

MSCI urges all investors globally to more readily integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations throughout their investment processes if they are to mitigate the risks and identify the opportunities of a rapidly changing world and contribute to an effective and balanced transition towards a sustainable economy. MSCI has published “The MSCI Principles of Sustainable Investing,” a framework designed to illustrate specific, actionable steps that investors can and should undertake to improve practices for ESG integration across the investment value chain.

Through our environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) research and applications we deliver in-depth research, ratings and analysis of the environmental, social and governance-related business practices of over 7,500 companies (13,500 issuers including subsidiaries) worldwide. Our research provides critical insights that can help institutional investors identify risks and opportunities that can impact the performance of their investments. As of September 30, 2019, MSCI ESG Research was used by over 1,300 investors worldwide. By helping our clients pursue sustainable and socially responsible investing strategies, our role is important in facilitating investment decisions that can ultimately lead to a better world.

MSCI ESG Research has worked with institutional investors for more than 20 years to enable them to incorporate climate change considerations in their investment process by providing an extensive climate risk assessment and reporting offering, providing global investors with solutions to help them better understand the impact of climate change on their investment portfolios.

We continue to expand our product range, serving global investors with climate change solutions. MSCI’s recent acquisition of Carbon Delta¹, which is a global leader in climate change scenario analysis, strengthens our suite of climate risk capabilities with technology that supports climate scenario analysis and forward-looking assessment of transition and physical risks, as well as extensive company-level analysis of publicly traded companies globally. More information on our climate change solutions.

Our team of experts are focused on in-depth research, ratings and analysis of the environmental, social and governance-related business practices of thousands of global companies. Products, services and insights that help investors adopt an ESG investing strategy include: