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Research Report
The MSCI Minimum Volatility Indexes: 10 Years On2018 marked the 10-year anniversary of the MSCI Minimum Volatility Indexes. Launching just prior to the global financial crisis, which caused sharp equity market falls, and the indexes’ behavior “out-of-sample” since launch have led to adoption by a large number of asset owners and the indexes’ serving as the basis for a wide range of ETFs that have gathered significant assets. Here, we contrast 10 years of live data with the previous 10 years of backtesting, investigating changes in the...
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Style Factors for Private Real Estate–Beyond Property Type and Location
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Foundations of ESG Investing – Part 4: Integrating ESG into Factor Strategies and Active PortfoliosHow can ESG characteristics be integrated consistently across factor-based and active equity allocations? In Part 4 of the Foundations of ESG Investing paper, we discuss two approaches to applying ESG ratings to factor-based allocations – a one-step and a two-step approach – asking which has done a better job at combining the underlying strategy with ESG while maintaining exposure to target factors. We then investigate overlaying ESG ratings and ESG momentum on the historical holdings of...
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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Methodology
MSCI World Select Multiple Factor ESG Low Carbon Target IndexPDF
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Methodology
MSCI World Select Multiple Factor ESG Low Carbon Target Index MethodologyPDF
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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? In our annual trends to watch report, we highlight the six biggest ESG forces affecting institutional investors over the long haul. To read data from other years, please see our ESG Trends page.
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Measuring factor exposuresAccurately estimating factor exposures for stocks and portfolios can be economically relevant and may improve the investment process for a variety of investors, including asset owners, quantitative managers, wealth managers and risk managers. Methods for measuring exposures vary, however. We provide a comparative analysis of two such techniques — one based on time-series regression models, the other on observable firm characteristics.
Indexes Portfolio Management Analytics
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Raising Minimum Governance StandardsInstitutional investors concerned with excessive focus on short-term results are increasingly seeking to improve minimum corporate governance standards of their portfolio companies. To date, active engagement has been widely recognized as an effective means to promote sustainable long-term growth and risk management of a portfolio, but such approaches can be costly and difficult to scale. We put forward a potential approach for institutional investors to systematically raise minimum...
Indexes ESG Products & Services
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What’s Your Factor Footprint?As the more alarmist discussion of factor meltdowns due to crowding has dissipated, institutional investors have turned toward understanding the investment capacity of factor-based strategies. The key question is to gauge how much capital can be invested in funds that replicate factor indexes before their return expectations diminish to unattractive levels. In this Research Insight, we use characteristics of factor indexes to gauge their capacity, using the MSCI Minimum Volatility Index as a...
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Quantitative Insight - Comparing GEM2 and GEM3: Portfolio Construction and TurnoverThe methodological enhancements introduced in the new Barra Global Equity Model (GEM3) are designed to improve risk forecasts for optimized portfolios. In this paper, we investigate the turnover and forecasting accuracy of optimized portfolios generated using GEM3, and compare them with those generated using the model’s predecessor, GEM2. By testing various investment strategies during the period 2007-2011, we found no systematic difference in turnover; in fact, the GEM3 risk forecasts...
Portfolio Management Analytics