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About: MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.7 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.
Employees: 6,208
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
24% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 113 | Existing positions closed: 91
21% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 14 [Q1] → 17 (+3) [Q2]
1.41% more ownership
Funds ownership: 89.98% [Q1] → 91.38% (+1.41%) [Q2]
3% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $39.5B [Q1] → $40.8B (+$1.31B) [Q2]
0% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,063 [Q1] → 1,065 (+2) [Q2]
6% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 391 | Existing positions reduced: 416
62% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $50.6M | Put options by funds: $133M
Research analyst outlook
3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
3 analyst ratings
Wells Fargo Jason Haas | 7%downside $533 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 23 Jul 2025 |
JP Morgan Alexander Hess | 19%upside $680 | Overweight Maintained | 21 Jul 2025 |
UBS Alex Kramm | 22%upside $700 | Buy Maintained | 8 Jul 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 15 articles about MSCI published over the past 30 days
