MSCI Launches MSCI Carbon Project Ratings to Allow Buyers, Investors & Developers of Carbon Credits to Better Evaluate Quality & Integrate of Carbon Projects, Assessment Includes Impact on Climate, Environment & Society, Legal & Ethical Risks, Financial Crime, Fraud & Sanctions
26th September 2024 | Hong Kong
MSCI has launched the MSCI Carbon Project Ratings to allow buyers, investors & developers of carbon credits to better evaluate quality & integrate of carbon projects, assessment includes impact on climate, environment & society, legal & ethical risks, financial crime, fraud & sanctions. MSCI (19/9/24): “MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, launched MSCI Carbon Project Ratings to enable buyers, investors, and developers of carbon credits to better assess the quality and integrity of carbon projects. Through a transparent and rules-based methodology that leverages MSCI’s independence and expertise in setting industry standards for climate investing, each individual project is assessed in depth against six criteria and over 50 sub-criteria broadly categorized under emissions impact and implementation integrity. The rating is a composite of these two categories and based on a seven-point letter rating scale from AAA to CCC. Projects rated AAA have both a high likelihood of achieving a 1 tonne emissions impact per credit and being implemented in a way that supports positive social and/or environmental outcomes, while upholding legal and ethical standards. MSCI Carbon Project Ratings integrate with the full suite of MSCI Carbon Markets solutions to provide integrity-based insights across the market, from integrity-based price indexes to assessments of corporate climate performance. To help clients navigate this challenge, MSCI Carbon Project Ratings assess over 4,000 projects in the global carbon credit market to offer more comprehensive, investment-grade, independent assessments of integrity and risks. Criteria considered in MSCI’s assessment include a project’s impact on the climate, environment and society, as well as legal and ethical risks, including financial crime, fraud, and sanctions.” In 2024 July, MSCI launched 130 MSCI Private Capital Indexes, constructed from tracking more than $11 trillion of private capital funds including private equity, private credit, private real estate, private infrastructure & private natural resources.
“ MSCI Launches MSCI Carbon Project Ratings to Allow Buyers, Investors & Developers of Carbon Credits to Better Evaluate Quality & Integrate of Carbon Projects, Assessment Includes Impact on Climate, Environment & Society, Legal & Ethical Risks, Financial Crime, Fraud & Sanctions “
Guy Turner, Head of MSCI Carbon Markets: “Carbon markets are critical to accelerating decarbonization and meeting net-zero goals, but only 5% of projects on the market are considered to be of very high integrity. Lack of confidence in the quality and integrity of projects is causing some buyers, investors and developers to hesitate. MSCI Carbon Project Ratings give clients the confidence to stake their strategies, capital and reputations on carbon credits while allowing them to compare credits across the entire market, mitigate risks from investment decisions, and fulfil disclosure requirements.”
MSCI Inc – MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
MSCI Launches 130 MSCI Private Capital Indexes Constructed from Tracking $11 Trillion of Private Capital Funds Including Private Equity, Private Credit, Private Real Estate, Private Infrastructure & Private Natural Resources
26th July 2024 – MSCI has launched 130 MSCI Private Capital Indexes, constructed from tracking more than $11 trillion of private capital funds including private equity, private credit, private real estate, private infrastructure & private natural resources. MSCI (22/7/24): “a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today announced the launch of MSCI Private Capital Indexes (“Indexes”), advancing the firm’s commitment to fostering transparency and innovation across the global private markets landscape. With growing investor interest in private markets, high quality data and consistent performance measurement of private capital funds and portfolios are crucial to providing clarity for investment decisions. The MSCI Private Capital Indexes meet these investor needs, building upon MSCI’s independence and expertise in driving transparency and introducing robust data and solutions across asset classes. The Indexes, constructed from a broad universe of private capital funds with over $11 trillion in capitalization, leverage MSCI’s transparent methodologies and reputation for rigorously verified data. Encompassing private equity, private credit, private real estate, private infrastructure, and private natural resources, these 130 Indexes complement MSCI’s over 80 existing real asset fund and property indexes providing investors with a comprehensive view of global private markets and the full risk spectrum of private real asset investing. Coupled with MSCI’s suite of equity and fixed-income indexes, these private capital indexes offer a multi-asset perspective for investors across their portfolios. Institutional investors can leverage these Indexes to meet their unique investment mandates and achieve long-term financial goals, while detailed insights from these Indexes can enable strategic asset allocation for asset owners … … With over 50 years of research and expertise as a leader in the index industry, MSCI also offers advanced custom benchmarking solutions to support asset allocation analysis, detailed performance reporting, and robust risk management for investors’ unique investment strategies and objectives.” In 2024 June, MSCI launched 2 new products, 1) GenAI powered risk & performance modelling risk reporting MSCI AI Portfolio Insights, and 2) Macro Finance Analyzer to test the impact of macroeconomic changes on portfolio risks & returns.
Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of MSCI: “Investors need tools that will help them cut through the complexity of private markets and take advantage of new investment opportunities. Our private capital indexes allow investors to gain clarity across their investments through high quality validated data and industry leading index construction.”
MSCI Launches 2 New Products: GenAI Powered Risk & Performance Modelling Risk Reporting MSCI AI Portfolio Insights and Macro Finance Analyzer to Test Impact of Macroeconomic Changes on Portfolio Risks & Returns
12th June 2024 – MSCI has launched 2 new products, 1) GenAI powered risk & performance modelling risk reporting MSCI AI Portfolio Insights, and 2) Macro Finance Analyzer to test the impact of macroeconomic changes on portfolio risks & returns. MSCI (10/6/24): “ MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of mission-critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today launched MSCI AI Portfolio Insights. Combining generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) with MSCI’s award-winning analytics tools and advanced modelling technologies, MSCI AI Portfolio Insights is designed to help investors better identify and manage potential emerging risks that dynamic markets pose to their portfolios. MSCI has combined its extensive risk and performance modelling capabilities with GenAI to enhance risk reporting. MSCI AI Portfolio Insights aims to create efficiencies and deliver insights to institutional risk and portfolio managers by helping identify and analyze the most salient information in risk reports before the working day starts. Investors can use MSCI AI Portfolio Insights’ interactive capabilities to drill further into changes in their portfolios without any need for code or extensive user interface dropdowns. MSCI AI Portfolio Insights merges generated text with modern dashboards and cloud-based technology to enhance communication and efficiency in risk and portfolio management. These tools aim to empower risk management teams at asset managers, hedge funds and asset owners to drive collaboration across their firm’s investment teams. Traditionally, risk managers have invested significant time and resources integrating complex models to process, clean, generate, store, and extract all data necessary to provide a comprehensive overview of risk and performance. Today, risk leaders at investment firms face increased pressure to deliver both enterprise-wide risk monitoring on a growing number of portfolios and risk advisory services to their investment teams. At the same time, global challenges like climate change, geopolitical tensions, macroeconomic uncertainty, and technological advancements have created new investment challenges and opportunities for risk leaders to monitor. MSCI AI Portfolio Insights leverages proprietary algorithms to curate large volumes of data, aiming to surface the most important factors impacting risk and performance and connecting them as appropriate to market events. It also features an AI agent to help risk managers further understand and decompose the risk and performance drivers. Based on natural language interaction, the assistant can answer complex questions about portfolios. MSCI also introduced the Macro Finance Analyzer today, leveraging MSCI’s financial modeling and stress-testing capabilities. This tool is designed to test how changes to macroeconomic conditions could affect a portfolio’s risks and returns across asset classes, supporting investors’ asset allocation decisions. Users can explore and test a wide variety of conditions, with the ability to adjust expectations for rapidly evolving market events and trends – like potential impacts of interest rate changes or changes in long-term economic growth. MSCI’s portfolio analytics tools are available on MSCI ONE, a cloud-based technology platform that combines flexible distribution, cloud delivery, dashboards, and visualizations. Launched in 2022, the platform enables users to seamlessly navigate MSCI’s robust analytics to help them identify key insights, innovate rapidly, and build investment portfolios that seek to deliver better strategic outcomes.”
Ashley Lester, Chief Research Officer at MSCI: “Institutional investors both can and must shift their risk teams from being largely control-oriented to also being an investment-focused function. With MSCI AI Portfolio Insights, we are transforming risk reporting to make it more insightful and more accessible to investment decision makers. Risk should not be just about monitoring: it should be about providing investors with actionable insights.”
Jorge Mina, Head of Analytics at MSCI: “At MSCI, we have observed a shift in the relationship between investment and risk management teams, driven by senior investment leaders’ growing demand for the integration of risk analytics into the investment process. Risk teams must seek efficiencies, modernize processes, and enhance the guidance they offer to the entire investment organization. To accomplish these goals and increase collaboration with portfolio managers, risk managers need the right toolkit, which is now provided on a single platform by MSCI.”
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
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