Indices

MSCI Indices

An overview of MSCI Indices

MSCI Global Equity Indices are widely tracked equity benchmarks and serve as the basis for over 650 Exchanged Traded Funds across the world. These Indices provide exhaustive equity market coverage for over 75 countries in the Developed, Emerging and Frontier market categories, while applying a consistent index construction and maintenance methodology. This methodology allows for meaningful global views and cross regional comparisons across all size, sector and style segments and combinations thereof.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    Global
  • History
    From 1988
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    JSON
    PCAP
    Python
    SQL
    String Format
    Text
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Cloud
    Deployed/Onsite Servers
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    SFTP
  • Data frequency
    Continuous
    Daily

Features & Benefits

What you get with MSCI Indices

  • MSCI has been at the forefront of index construction and maintenance for more than 40 years, launching its first global equity index series in 1969.
  • Consistent methodology for every market - Where other providers use either a long-term or short-term liquidity measure to assess the eligibility of stocks for their indices, MSCI uses both, recognizing the differences in liquidity between developed and emerging markets and enhancing the investability and replicability of their indices. MSCI puts strong emphasis on investability and replicability of its indices through the use of size and liquidity screens.
  • All of MSCI’s indices are created using the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®), an industry classification system developed by MSCI and S&P Global, which provides a common framework to classify stocks. They offer exhaustive coverage of investable opportunity set with non-overlapping size and style segmentation.
  • Full suite of market cap, factor, strategy, thematic, ESG, real estate, fixed income and custom indices.

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