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MSCI Takes Top Honors in Index Industry Awards

Index Innovation of the Year. Best Index Provider for ETF Products. Best Provider of Benchmark Indices…


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MSCI  Inc. announces that it has won  top honors in three industry awards recognizing leadership in the index industry.  
Earlier this month, MSCI was awarded ‘Index Innovation of the Year’ in the Structured Products Europe Awards 2013, which  recognize excellence  and innovation in the manufacture and distribution of structured products. MSCI was also voted  ‘Best Index Provider for ETF Products’  in the inaugural ETF Risk European Rankings 2013,  which name the best providers in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry, as voted by institutional investors, consultants, trading houses, ETF issuers, research firms and exchanges.  In October,  for the  fifth  consecutive year, MSCI was named  ‘Best Provider of Benchmark Indices’ in the Asian Investor 2013 Service Provider Awards.
“These industry awards reflect MSCI’s position as a pioneer in the creation of innovative products, such as factor indices,  and the enduring appeal of our traditional market cap weighted indices,” said Baer Pettit, Managing Director and Global Head of the MSCI Index Business. “With the continued adoption of our indices as the basis of new ETFs,  and a number of exciting new index launches this year, MSCI continues to set the standard in the index world and we are proud that this has been recognized by the industry.”
This has been a year of recognition for MSCI’s  index business. In October, Deborah Yang, Managing Director and Head of the MSCI Index Business in EMEA and India, was named  one  of the  Top 100 Influential Women in the European financial markets by Financial News. In July 2013, MSCI was named the benchmark of choice for international equity ETFs in the fourth annual Greenwich Associates study.1

The study  found that 88% of US institutional ETF users and 100% percent of investment consultants named MSCI as their benchmark of choice.
Commenting on MSCI winning the ‘Index Innovation of the Year’ award,  Structured Products Magazine wrote, “MSCI has taken the lead in transforming academic research into empirical indexes with its range of risk premia benchmarks, which have gathered a total of USD 31 billion throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa in structured products and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). At a time when risk premia strategies are a hot topic with investors exploring risk factors, MSCI stands out as the index provider that best reflects their prevailing investment preferences.”


1 Greenwich Report “Institutional Inestors’ Relationship with ETFs Deepens”, May 2013, Greenwich Associates.

Source: ETFWorld – MSCI

 

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