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\nRemy Briand, MSCI Head of ESG<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nInvestment Strategy:<\/span><\/strong> Asset owners should integrate ESG considerations into their processes for establishing, monitoring and revising their overall investment strategy and asset allocation.<\/p>\nPortfolio Management:<\/strong> <\/span>Portfolio managers should incorporate ESG considerations throughout the entire portfolio management process, including security selection, portfolio construction, risk management, performance attribution and client reporting.<\/p>\nInvestment Research:<\/span> <\/strong>Research analysts assessing companies and issuing investment recommendations to portfolio managers should integrate ESG considerations (including ESG company ratings) into their fundamental company analysis.<\/p>\nThis publication is one of many resources designed to help investors identify new investment opportunities, manage emerging risks and achieve long-term, sustainable investment performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world is rapidly evolving due to dramatic environmental, social and governance shifts, including the effects and implications of climate change and the move to a low carbon economy, which will significantly impact the pricing of financial assets and the risk and return of investments, and lead to a large-scale re-allocation of capital over the next few decades,\u201d said Henry Fernandez, Chairman & CEO at MSCI. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe need for a set of guidelines that will help all investment institutions around the world manage emerging opportunities and inherent risks associated with ESG considerations in pursuit of long-term, sustainable investment performance has never been greater. MSCI is fully committed to helping investors make better decisions for a better world, and these Principles of Sustainable Investing play a part towards achieving that mission,\u201d added Mr. Fernandez.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cSustainable investing is a critically important part of the long-term investment process and our framework is designed to help investors understand approaches to effectively integrate ESG criteria as a core component of building a resilient portfolio,\u201d said Remy Briand, Head of ESG at MSCI.<\/strong> <\/span>\u201cThrough our research, tools and efforts to promote transparency, we seek to support investors in the critical quest to integrate ESG considerations in their portfolios.\u201d<\/p>\nMSCI has been at the forefront of providing data, research and other tools to help enable ESG integration across the whole investment process and is committed to further advance solutions to facilitate and accelerate sustainable investing.<\/span><\/strong> Our research, ratings, indexes, models and portfolio analytics empower the world\u2019s largest and most sophisticated investors in their drive to integrate ESG considerations into their investment processes.<\/p>\nMSCI also promotes ESG transparency across the investment value chain by making publicly available our ESG ratings of the most commonly owned companies worldwide, as well as our methodologies for determining ESG company ratings and constructing ESG indexes.<\/p>\n
By April 30, 2020, MSCI will also make public the ESG characteristics of all MSCI Equity Indexes and of the most commonly owned mutual funds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nSource: ETFWorld.co.uk<\/p>\n
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