MSCI Strengthens Private Markets Leadership With Launch of 130 Indexes

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today announced the launch of MSCI Private Capital Indexes (“Indexes”), advancing the firm’s commitment to fostering transparency and innovation across the global private markets landscape.

With growing investor interest in private markets, high quality data and consistent performance measurement of private capital funds and portfolios are crucial to providing clarity for investment decisions. The MSCI Private Capital Indexes meet these investor needs, building upon MSCI’s independence and expertise in driving transparency and introducing robust data and solutions across asset classes.

The Indexes, constructed from a broad universe of private capital funds with over $11 trillion in capitalization, leverage MSCI's transparent methodologies and reputation for rigorously verified data. Encompassing private equity, private credit, private real estate, private infrastructure, and private natural resources, these 130 Indexes complement MSCI’s over 80 existing real asset fund and property indexes providing investors with a comprehensive view of global private markets and the full risk spectrum of private real asset investing. Coupled with MSCI's suite of equity and fixed-income indexes, these private capital indexes offer a multi-asset perspective for investors across their portfolios.

Institutional investors can leverage these Indexes to meet their unique investment mandates and achieve long-term financial goals, while detailed insights from these Indexes can enable strategic asset allocation for asset owners.

Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of MSCI, said: “Investors need tools that will help them cut through the complexity of private markets and take advantage of new investment opportunities. Our private capital indexes allow investors to gain clarity across their investments through high quality validated data and industry leading index construction.”

With over 50 years of research and expertise as a leader in the index industry, MSCI also offers advanced custom benchmarking solutions to support asset allocation analysis, detailed performance reporting, and robust risk management for investors’ unique investment strategies and objectives.

About MSCI Inc.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please visit www.msci.com. MSCI#IR

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