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Guido Giese
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Comparing Carbon Estimates Against DisclosuresIn December 2015, we identified 277 companies that were constituents of the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index (IMI) that had disclosed their 2013 scope 1+2 carbon emissions in 2015 for the first time. This provided a unique opportunity to test out carbon estimation models on which institutional investors have had to rely. We found that the methods that have been around the longest – which rely on Economic Input Output Life Cycle Analysis (EIO-LCA) models – were not very accurate when...
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Webcast
The Controversial Weapons Landscape: Recent Regulations and Research TrendsCanada recently ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, becoming the 92nd State Party to the Treaty. An increasing number of institutional investors are looking to implement investment policies that exclude companies involved in the production of Cluster Munitions, as well as other types of so-called 'controversial weapons'. What constitutes a controversial weapon varies by region, country and institution, with some investors focusing on chemical and biological weapons, cluster...
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Newsletter
Risk Update - December 2012Online Version | Contact Us Risk Update From MSCI | December 2012 MSCI has been named the top firm in the Market Risk and Fund & Asset...
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Research Report
Five Lessons for Investors From the COVID-19 CrisisThe coronavirus pandemic sparked a surge of volatility across global financial markets. What lessons could investors draw from the COVID-19 crisis? In this paper, we present and discuss empirical evidence supporting five key lessons for investors regarding global investing, managing factors, active management, indexed investing and ESG investing.
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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Webcast
Investment Implications of the US Coal CrashThe market for thermal coal is in structural decline in the United States, according to the March 2015 Carbon Tracker Initiative report entitled "The US Coal Crash: Evidence for Structural Change." The report indicates that in the last few years US coal markets have suffered from a combination of cheaper renewables, energy efficiency measures, rising construction costs and ever tightening pollution laws, as well as the shale gas revolution. What does this structural shift in the coal market...
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Bitter Pills - The US Opioid Crisis and Potential Impact on Healthcare CompaniesThe US opioid crisis generates near-daily news headlines as opioids continue to kill Americans and draw many more into addiction. Companies that make and distribute prescription opioids find themselves under an uncomfortably hot spotlight as lawsuits and accusations of complicity pile up. In this paper, we parse out the ways different segments of the healthcare ecosystem have been implicated in the crisis, and to what degree. We draw on our MSCI ESG Controversies research and systematic...
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MSCI Blog
Corporate Disclosure in a TCFD WorldIn June of 2017, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) released climate-related disclosure recommendations to companies and investors that included a framework for better company disclosure and a request for climate scenarios as part of that disclosure. But for investors looking to incorporate environmental risk into their process, there might be a pretty big catch: We mapped over 140 MSCI ESG Research climate-related data points to the TCFD framework and found a significant gap between what investors need to know under these recommendations and what companies are telling them.
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MSCI Blog
Uber vs. Lyft: Who’s at the Wheel?Two companies, one highly disruptive business model, multiple big challenges looming. Few IPOs in recent memory have attracted more attention – or disappointed more decisively, initially – than the IPOs of ride-sharing groups Uber and Lyft. At the end of June 7, 2019, two months following its IPO, Lyft’s share price traded at 17.7% below its IPO price, while Uber’s ended that same day 1.9% lower. Could ESG considerations have played into investors’ thinking?
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Research Report
Five Lessons for Investors From the COVID-19 CrisisThe coronavirus pandemic sparked a surge of volatility across global financial markets. What lessons could investors draw from the COVID-19 crisis? In this paper, we present and discuss empirical evidence supporting five key lessons for investors regarding global investing, managing factors, active management, indexed investing and ESG investing.
Indexes ESG Products & Services