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Press Release
GPIF, one of the world’s largest pension funds, selects NEW MSCI Japanese ESG Indexes in a significant step towards ESG integrationPDFIndexes ESG Products & Services
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Press Release
世界最大級の年金基金GPIFが日本を対象としたMSCIの新しいESG指数を採用、ESG統合を加速PDFIndexes ESG Products & Services
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Research Report
Regulatory Easing: Potential Impact on Energy SectorUsing market returns as a starting point, we focus on the U.S. energy sector to better understand how the possibility of regulatory easing could affect sector, company and investor performance. For the energy sector, we suggest that regulatory changes alone may be unlikely to upend global supply and demand dynamics for fossil fuels, with renewable energy adoption driven by global market-led factors extending beyond regulations in a single market. Falling demand for fossil fuels due to...
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Webcast
MSCI ESG Corporate Primer Webinar本セミナーでは、MSCI ESGリサーチの格付け対象となっている企業のCSR・IR業務等をご担当される皆様に、弊社のESG評価、分析、格付けのメソドロジーなどをご紹介致します。 MSCI ESGリサーチは世界で約900社の機関投資家に活用され、その運用資産総額は15兆ドルと試算されています。 益々活発になることが予想される機関投資家のスチュワードシップ活動対応やESG投資家を惹きつけるための戦略立案に向けての情報収集にご活用ください。
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Research Report
The Tax Gap: Regulatory Responses and Implications for Institutional InvestorsThe regulatory environment around international tax avoidance continues to evolve at a rapid pace since our analysis in May 2015 on the tax gap of companies in the MSCI World Index. In our updated analysis, we identified 531 companies (out of 2,160 relevant companies) in the MSCI ACWI Index as of November 1, 2016, as having a large tax gap, paying an average rate of 14.3% versus the 31.8% that would be expected based on the jurisdictions where they generated revenue. Were the entire gap to be...
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Research Report
Women in Finance - Do Financial Firms Maximize Their Talent Supplies?Rather than understanding gender through the lens of performance, our approach to this paper was to understand whether the gender gap was a function of talent and labor availability rather than cultural bias. In short – do financial firms maximize their available talent and labor supplies? MSCI ESG Research estimated the available supply of talent workforce in any given country and mapped them to individual financial firms based on the geographies where they operate and recruit talents...
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Research Report
Impact Down UnderKEY TAKEAWAYS Australian constituents of the MSCI World Index derived 4.9% of their revenue from involvement in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related activities, compared to the MSCI World Index’s 6.2%, as of October 2016, with Green Building, Major Disease Treatments and Nutrition being the main areas of involvement. CSL and Mirvac are standout examples of sustainable impact involvement in Australia. CSL’s involvement in Major Disease Treatment came through its Hemophilia and...
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Research Report
Keep it Broad: An Approach to ESG Strategic TiltingHOW CAN UNIVERSAL OWNERS INTEGRATE ESG PRINCIPLES WHILE MAINTAINING A BROAD AND DIVERSIFIED INVESTMENT UNIVERSE? Institutional investors are increasingly looking for ways to integrate ESG considerations into their investment decisions. By doing so, they may aim to mitigate long-term risks, generate higher risk-adjusted performance and/or align investments with broader societal objectives. As ESG investment guidelines become more commonplace among asset owners, and as many continue to build...
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Research Report
The Impeder of Economic GrowthOvertime work is a deeply rooted social issue in Japan as 21% of employees worked over 49 hours weekly in 2015, which is the highest percentage among major developed countries1. In 2016, the Japanese government tightened its scrutiny on companies’ overtime work management2 and started discussions on possible new rules to limit overtime work hours3. Moreover, recent controversies relating to overwork such as an employee’s death resulting from overwork in Dentsu turned much public attention to...
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Webcast
2017 ESG Trends to WatchThis year may usher in a fundamental rethink for investors. Underlying all the major trends we identified for 2017 is a strategic decision point – do we change the way we think about investing, or is this business as usual in a new order? Join the authors of the 2017 ESG Trends to Watch Report, including MSCI’s Global Head of ESG Research Linda-Eling Lee, for an overview of the biggest ESG forces affecting institutional investors over the long haul, including: 1. Owning the Long...