AGB 2022.16 - MSCI (MSCI)

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MSCI

MSCI is a leading provider of index data and analytics tools for the asset management industry. Customers use the company’s indexes to define the investment universe for their products, benchmark their performance and construct exchange-traded fund (ETF) products. Customers also leverage MSCI’s analytics software and tools to gain insights into their asset allocation, portfolio construction decisions and measure risk. As of 2021, the company calculates over 15k real time and 267k end-of-day indexes in more than 80 equity markets for its customers.

MSCI started in the 1980s when Morgan Stanley licensed indexes for non-US markets from Capital International. MSCI is still the market leader for international indexes today. The company acquired Barra in 2004 to complement the equity index business with risk measurement tools for customers. MSCI was spun out of Morgan Stanley via an IPO in 2007.

MSCI’s core business is t…