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Press Release
MSCI and OECD Announce Collaboration to Help Institutional Investors Achieve UN Sustainable Development GoalsPDF
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Research Report
Does high-yield receive the ESG credit it deserves?The distinction between investment-grade and high-yield issuers always has seemed rather black and white – low vs. high level default risk – but can we assume the same for these issuers’ management of ESG risks? Are all high-yield issuers also poor ESG risk managers? There is early research in the fixed-income market suggesting that credit ratings do not accurately reflect ESG risks and therefore do not serve as a sufficient proxy for that measure, but what about ESG ratings? Can a better...
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Press Release
Institutional investors could be overlooking the climate change risk of ‘cleaner’ industriesPDF
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Research Report
How Markets Price ESG: Have Changes in ESG Scores Affected Stock Prices?Many researchers have studied the link between companies’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) characteristics and financial risk and performance. This paper examines some of the underlying economic questions: How have markets priced ESG characteristics? Have they been fully priced? Have there been sweetspots? How quickly did the market incorporate ESG information? We investigate these questions by looking into how changes in companies’ ESG profiles have historically predicted equity...
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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Research Report
Executive Summary: Tobacco: A Practical Guide For Institutional InvestorsWhile tobacco screening is one of the oldest available SRI screens, it remains very relevant today. There continue to be announcements from large investors adopting policies focused on avoiding exposure to companies with tobacco involvement given the significant health and societal costs. In September 2018 Tobacco Free Portfolios announced the Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge in collaboration with UNEP FI, PSI, PRI, AXA, BNP Paribas, Natixis and AMP Capital. The pledge encourages the finance...
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Research Report
Alignment to Climate Regulatory Scenarios: A Case Study of Australian CompaniesWhile technological progress will likely play a critical role in catalyzing a transition to a low carbon economy, regulation has historically been a key lever in efforts to reduce global carbon emissions to combat climate change. Within the financial sector, climate change scenario analysis has begun to take a more prominent role in climate change risk management, after recommendations from the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) were...
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Research Report
Japan: MSCI ESG Ratings SnapshotSince the launch of the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index in 2017, 60% of companies in the MSCI Japan Top 500 Index have actively participated in MSCI's Issuer Communication process, indicating their awareness and interest in supporting MSCI ESG Research. However, only 11% have demonstrated a stronger handle of relevant ESG risks that resulted in an MSCI ESG Rating upgrade; most (81%) have maintained their rating. We found Japanese companies in the MSCI Japan Top 500 Index have faced fewer...
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Research Report
Gender Diversity in Japan: Progress Report 2018This reports examines progress Japanese companies have made in gender diversity metrics since July 2017, when MSCI launched the MSCI Japan Women Empowerment Index (WIN). Here, we look at whether the economic rationale for increasing female participation in the workforce held true in Japan.
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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MSCI Blog
Can the Right Benchmark Improve your Vision?As interest in ESG investing continues to grow, so does the number of actively managed strategies that integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into their investment processes. However, institutional investors and managers have been benchmarking many of these ESG-tilted strategies against standard market-cap-weighted indexes. While these indexes provide a broad basis for evaluating performance, they lack the ability to provide the insights that might be gained from ESG-focused benchmarks.
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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Research Report
China A Shares: MSCI ESG Ratings OverviewIn May 2018, MSCI ESG Research completed ESG Rating assessment to 423 constituents of MSCI China A International Index. This two page summary provides an overview of the key findings and the unique characteristics of the China A peer set. The full report, available to MSCI ESG Research clients only, explores the methodology solutions applied in the analysis.