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Search ArticlesMSCI in Practice: Physical Climate Risk Intelligence for Financial Decisions Stronger Together: MSCI + First Street
Extreme weather is no longer a side note in financial analysis — it is a daily input into capital allocation. Company filings citing extreme weather as a material risk are up 282%, profit warnings linked to extreme weather are up 147%, and companies are now more than 6.5x as likely to issue a profit warning following an extreme weather event than they were two decades ago.
Closed-End Funds vs. Open-End Funds: A Practical Guide for New Investors
Closed-end (or drawdown) and open-end (or evergreen) funds are the two dominant private market structures. The core differences come down to fund life, liquidity accessibility and reinvestment responsibility. Neither structure is inherently better, and the right choice comes down to factors like liquidity needs, time horizon and familiarity with private markets.
Private Company Insights: Anthropic
Research Paper August 17, 2026 Anthropic submitted its IPO filing to the SEC in June, positioning the AI developer for one of the most closely watched private-to-public transitions in the current market. This report examines Anthropic’s business performance, competitive positioning and secondary-market momentum, drawing on MSCI Private Company Insights data, public sources and the company.
MSCI, inside your AI.
Break down any MSCI index by constituents, factor tilts and returns, answered in seconds. Find hidden concentration in your portfolio, see what's driving risk and performance and test it under scenarios. See public and private exposure as one portfolio, then model commitment pacing and capital plans. Rank funds against peers by strategy, vintage and geography, and track IRR, TVPI and DPI across market cycles.
Can You See Your Total Portfolio?
Institutional investors face a challenge that cuts across every investment philosophy: understanding the portfolio as a whole. As private markets become a larger share of institutional portfolios, market exposures, liquidity risks and concentrations increasingly span traditional asset-class boundaries.
Market Concentration and the Global Index Opportunity Set
Research Paper Stuart Doole, Jean-Maurice Ladure, Pavlo Taranenko, Adrian Elizondo Morales, Carlos Pacheco August 6, 2026 Global megacap concentration is persisting. Does this change the global indexing challenge with its core trade-off between global size integrity and individual market breadth and coverage?
Scenario Analysis: The AI Supply Chain Under Stress
Geographic diversification in global equity portfolios may hide a common dependence on U.S. hyperscalers’ AI capital spending. Asian semiconductor companies and European chip-equipment firms have created a cross-border concentration risk: A slowdown in that spending could spread from U.S. platforms to memory producers, foundries and equipment suppliers. We use the MSCI Multi-Asset Class Factor Model (MAC) to construct two AI scenarios.
Real Estate in Focus: APAC
MSCI’s leading research experts share insights into the evolving Asia-Pacific commercial real estate landscape, analyzing the latest market trends, challenges and opportunities shaping the sector. Key takeaways: • Market dynamics: Gain a deeper, more nuanced understanding of current market shifts and their implications. • Emerging trends: Explore where new opportunities are developing across the Asia-Pacific commercial real estate market.
MSCI completes acquisition of First Street
New York – August 3, 2026 – MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) has completed its acquisition of First Street, a leading provider of physics-based climate risk data and analytics across more than 2.4 billion structures worldwide. The acquisition was initially announced on June 24, 2026. Richard Mattison, Head of Sustainability and Climate at MSCI, said: “We are pleased to complete the acquisition of First Street.
MSCI Real Estate Market Size
Research Paper Razia Neshat, Rishikesh Patkar, Hariharan G G August 3, 2026 Our annual analysis of the global professionally managed real-estate universe provides a deeper understanding of the relative size of 38 property markets around the world in 2025. The report charts the market sizes and relative weights that underpin the MSCI Global Annual Property Index and a range of other multinational indexes, helping institutional investors map and balance their portfolios.