MSCI - ESG, Climate & Net-Zero Solutions
Data category
- Environmental data
- Governance data
- Indices/Exchange data
- Rankings
- Ratings
- Social data
- Verification/certification data
- Climate Metrics
- Research data
Brief description of the data offering
MSCI[1] provides ESG and climate data, ratings, research, indexes, and analytical tools aimed at helping the world’s investors build better portfolios:
- AI-enhanced investment relevant ESG and climate insights for over 17,500 issuers, 750,000 securities, 198 countries/regions and 54,000 funds, ETFs and fund of funds
- SFDR Adverse Impact and EU Taxonomy Alignment metrics for over 10,600 issuers
- 900+ Climate Change Metrics, Covering 10,000+ Issuers
- 1,500+ equity and fixed income ESG and climate indexes
- Extensive climate and Net-Zero metrics and tools including climate scenario analysis, carbon management assessment, carbon emissions, clean tech metrics and fossil fuel screens
[1]MSCI Indexes and MSCI Analytics utilize information from, but are not provided by, MSCI ESG Research LLC. MSCI Equity Indexes are products of MSCI Inc. and are administered by MSCI UK Limited.
The data offers solutions for:
- Carbon footprinting
- Climate scenario analysis
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Nature-based information
- Nature-based information: Biodiversity
- Nature-based information: Land use
- Nature-based information: Oceans
- Nature-based information: Water
- Reporting: CSRD
- Reporting: EU Regulations
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: UN SDGs
- Social impact analysis and insight
Where and how do you source your data?
MSCI’s 620+ ESG experts and technologists use AI to extract investment-relevant insights from unstructured data. The analysts continuously evaluate ESG and climate risks including daily monitoring of 3,400 media publications and updates from public documents and third-party datasets.
On average, 36% of the data that influences the MSCI ESG Rating[1] is not provided by the company, but sourced by analysts:
- 36% Alternative data sources
- 38% Voluntary Company Disclosures
- 24% Mandatory Company Disclosures[2]
MSCI’s ESG Ratings model, which is publicly available[3], uses a rules-based methodology to identify industry leaders and laggards according to their exposure to ESG risks and how well they manage those risks relative to peers. MSCI has 14+ years ESG Ratings time series data[4].
[1] 2,846 constituents of the MSCI ACWI Index researched for ESG Ratings (as of May 2022)
[2] Data as of January 2021
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Asset Managers
- Asset Owners
- Consultants/Advisors
- Banks
- Insurance
- Wealth Managers
What is the cost for your data offering?
Please contact esgclientservice@msci.com
What are the key attributes that differentiates the data you offer?
World’s largest provider of ESG data, research and indexes[1].
Climate Data Provider to 44 of the World’s Top 50 Asset Managers[2]
When it comes to ESG and climate integration, we understand that no-one-size-fits-all, but there are core ingredients which are important to you and that we strive to be the global leader in.
- Transparent, consistent, robust and up-to-date data that provides meaningful insights beyond corporate disclosure
- Industry material ESG insights which may impact financial performance
- Broad coverage and timeseries data across regions, industries and asset classes
- Solutions to support all aspects of the investment decision making process
- Solutions to support regulatory, disclosure and reporting requirements
- Data, technology and flexible solutions to customize your offering
- We are the world’s largest provider of ESG data, research and indexes[3] and we are proud to support the ESG strategies of over 2,650 clients[4] worldwide including leading pension funds, asset managers, consultants, advisers, banks and insurers.
Climate change is an important element of our ESG strategy and a key issue for many investors. Our 40+ team of climate specialists[5] is dedicated to the development of sophisticated, ground-breaking and forward-looking climate assessment tools for investors, to measure and manage the investment risks associated with climate change, and to identify climate-based opportunities for innovation and positive impact. We provide climate data to 44 of the world’s top 50 asset managers[6].
[1] MSCI Inc. as of March 2021
[2] MSCI ESG Research’s climate solutions are used by 44 of the top 50 world’s largest Asset Managers as determined by Willis Towers Watson report “The world’s largest 500 asset managers, Joint study with Pensions & Investments.” AUM and rankings calculated as of December 2020. Report published October 2021. MSCI Clients as of December 2021
[3] UBS Report published 2/16/2021 “Is the ESG Data and Services TAM Expanding? Who is Capitalizing on the Trend?” -Survey data from 35 Mutual funds, 18 hedge funds, 9 pension funds, 63 Wealth Management (High Net Worth), and 48 Long-only institutional investors
[4] To calculate the number of clients, we use the shipping address of the ultimate customer utilizing the product, which counts affiliates, user locations or business units within a single organization as separate clients; As of December 2021
[5] As of September 2021
[6] MSCI ESG Research’s climate solutions are used by 44 of the top 50 world’s largest Asset Managers as determined by Willis Towers Watson report “The world’s largest 500 asset managers, Joint study with Pensions & Investments.” AUM and rankings calculated as of December 2020. Report published October 2021. MSCI Clients as of December 2021
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