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MSCI Inc. is an American finance company headquartered in New York City.MSCI is a global providers of equity, fixed income, real estate indices, multi-asset portfolio analysis tools, ESG and climate products.
The MSCI World is a widely followed global stock market index that tracks the performance of around 1,500 large and mid-cap companies across 23 developed countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is maintained by MSCI , formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International, and is used as a common benchmark for global stock funds intended to represent a broad cross ...
The MSCI EAFE Index is a stock market index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of developed markets outside of the U.S. & Canada. It is maintained by MSCI Inc. , [ 1 ] a provider of investment decision support tools; the EAFE acronym stands for Europe, Australasia and Far East.
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries [1] into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.
The MSCI KLD 400 Social Index is designed to provide exposure to the common stocks of companies that KLD determines have positive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) characteristics. The KLD400 consists of 400 companies drawn from the universe of the 3,000 largest U.S. public equities as measured by float-adjusted market ...
iShares is a collection of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) managed by BlackRock, which acquired the brand and business from Barclays in 2009. The first iShares ETFs were known as World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) but have since been rebranded.
This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.As of 2020, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide was over 7,600, [1] representing about 7.74 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. [2]
In investing, a developed market is a country that is most developed in terms of its economy and capital markets. The country must be high income, but this also includes openness to foreign ownership, ease of capital movement, and efficiency of market institutions.