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ESG statement

Institutional investors worldwide rely on MSCI’s ecosystem of support for ESG investing to integrate environmental, social and governance considerations throughout their investment processes.¹

From the reality of a changing climate to calls for a greener, more sustainable society, investors increasingly understand how ESG considerations can influence long-term risks and opportunities in financial markets. MSCI believes that ESG and climate factors will significantly impact the pricing of financial assets and lead to a large-scale reallocation of capital over the next decades.²

Research, ratings, indexes, models, and portfolio analytics from MSCI empower institutional owners and managers of assets in their drive to incorporate ESG into their investment strategies, embed such considerations throughout the portfolio management process, and factor ESG ratings into their fundamental company analysis.

MSCI promotes transparency across the investment value chain by making publicly available our ESG ratings of the most commonly owned companies as well as our methodologies for determining company ratings and constructing ESG indexes.

Links and documents
– Foundations of ESG Investing
– The MSCI Principles of Sustainable Investing
– An introduction to MSCI ESG Ratings
– MSCI ESG Indexes
– MSCI ESG Solutions
– MSCI Climate Indexes
– Climate 101
– Climate Investing
– Net-Zero Solutions

Linda-Eling Lee

Global Head of MSCI ESG Research

As global head of MSCI ESG Research, Linda-Eling Lee oversees all of MSCI’s ESG- and Climate-related content and methodology.

She leads a global team of analysts who draw on their expertise to rate over 8,500 companies (14,000 issuers including subsidiaries) based on resilience to long-term, industry-material environmental, social and governance risks. Institutional investors worldwide use ESG ratings, thematic research, and analysis from MSCI to inform investment decisions.

Under Ms. Lee’s leadership, MSCI has been recognized by a series of influential organizations and publications for the excellence of its ESG research. They include the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which named MSCI’s 2020 ESG Trends Project: 10 Questions that may shape the decade its ESG Research Report of the Year.

Ms. Lee joined MSCI in 2010 following the acquisition of RiskMetrics, where she led ESG ratings research and was head of consumer sector analysis. Linda joined RiskMetrics Group in 2009 through the acquisition of Innovest.

She has published research in management journals such as the Harvard Business Review and MIT’s Sloan Management Review, as well as in such peer-reviewed academic journals as Management Science and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Ms. Lee, who holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard, was recently named by Barron’s to its latest annual list of the 100 Most Influential Women in Finance. Ms. Lee recently spoke at the 2021 G20 International Conference on Climate Change on the role of capital in a net-zero economy.

¹MSCI ESG Research products and services are provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC and are designed to provide in-depth research, ratings and analysis of environmental, social and governance-related business practices to companies worldwide. MSCI ESG Research LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

²MSCI’s Principles of Sustainable Investing offer a framework designed to illustrate specific, actionable steps that investors can and should undertake to improve practices for ESG integration across the investment value chain. To learn more, please visit www.msci.com.

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