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MSCI Blog
Sector Insights from India’s Equity MarketA sector-based perspective of the Indian equity market, one of the emerging beneficiaries of global power shifts, indicates the valuation premiums of most sectors are high in historical terms and relative to sectors in other emerging markets.
Emerging Markets Indexes All Country Indexes MSCI Sector Indexes
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MSCI Blog
Markets in Focus: Concentrating on DiversificationHigher equity and bond correlation combined with increased index concentration suggest now is a good time to revisit allocations across regional, country, sector, style and thematic exposures for adequate portfolio diversification.
MSCI Country and Regional Indexes Emerging Markets Indexes Developed Markets MSCI Sector Indexes
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MSCI Blog
Small Caps’ Big Story in ChinaThe China A shares market has grown rapidly, along with the number of small-cap stocks. We compare a market-cap-coverage approach to index construction vs. a fixed-number approach and find the former more consistently captured small-size exposure.
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MSCI Blog
Equity-Factor Commentary July 2023: Fireworks and FrothThe risk-on market rally continued in July amid several indicators of frothiness as beta and residual volatility posted the highest factor returns in the U.S. by a wide margin and were also strong globally.
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Research Report
Analyst Sentiment as a Factor Consideration
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MSCI Blog
The World After COVID-19: Exploring the Market’s Digital MakeoverCOVID-19 hastened the digital transformation of global equities and increased exposures to other themes. We apply an attribution framework to the MSCI ACWI IMI and offer valuable insights into how these shifts have impacted investor portfolios.
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MSCI Blog
Climate and ESG Indexes in Focus: Sectors Told the StoryWe review the drivers of performance for ESG and climate indexes over the first quarter of 2023, and investigate the explanatory power of the carbon-efficiency factor over time.
BarraOne ESG Indexes SRI ESG Screening (BISR) MSCI Sector Indexes GICS
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MSCI Blog
Why More Short-Dated Options Did Not Increase Market VolatilityTrading of U.S.-listed options more than doubled in 2022 compared to 2019 — as investors gradually gravitated from monthly to weekly to even daily options over those four years. Some have wondered if this could lead to greater equity-market volatilty.
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MSCI Blog
Drawing Insights from Thematic Exposures: The (Natural) Language of Growth InvestingWhat impact could natural language processing (NLP) have on equity portfolio management? We explore how firms’ thematic exposures, assembled with an assist from NLP, can bring unique insights to portfolios.
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MSCI Blog
Global Markets One Year After Russia’s Invasion of UkraineMarkets have partially recovered since Russia invaded Ukraine, but questions remain about inflation, economic growth and central banks’ actions. Understanding last year’s performance across asset classes, may help with investment decisions in 2023.
Global Intel ESG Climate Solutions All Country Indexes MSCI Sector Indexes Factor Indexes Equity Risk Models BarraOne RiskMetrics CreditManager