Overview
MSCI is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. Our products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.
Our goal is to leverage our deep understanding of the world's financial markets to turn data-driven insights into tools that our clients can use throughout their investment process.
Our global team of over 2,000 employees is dedicated to supporting the increasingly complex needs of our clients, creating groundbreaking new products, and offering superior global distribution and support to the investment community.
History
Since the MSCI indices were launched over 40 years ago, the company has grown both organically and through acquisition to become one of the world’s leading players in the investment management arena.
In 2004 MSCI acquired Barra, a leading provider of risk management systems and services to managers of portfolio and firm wide investment risk. As part of this transaction, MSCI also acquired Financial Engineering Associates (FEA), a firm specializing in energy derivatives modeling. In November 2007, MSCI completed an initial public offering (“IPO”) and began the transition to an independent, standalone public company, which was completed in May 2009 when Morgan Stanley sold its remaining stake in the company through a secondary offering.
MSCI acquired RiskMetrics Group in 2010, expanding the company’s risk management offering and moving into the corporate governance space. RiskMetrics is widely credited as establishing the Value at Risk framework as a standard of risk measurement globally.
Today, MSCI combines a range of internationally recognized and trusted brands and serves thousands of clients, including asset managers, hedge funds, banks, insurance companies and pension funds.
We are proud of our reputation as a pioneer in the index and risk management space - MSCI introduced its first equity index products in 1969, Barra launched its first equity risk analytics products in 1975 and RiskMetrics developed its industry leading VaR model in 1994.
MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.
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