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Environment, Social and Governance for Companies

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Environment, Social and Governance for Companies

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Leading Brands Worldwide

MSCI branded products include the MSCI Global Equity Indices and the MSCI ESG Indices and Research products. Widely used by institutional investors to benchmark fund performance and construct portfolios, the MSCI Global Equity Indices are the most widely adopted benchmarks for cross border equity funds.

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INVESTORS (Pension funds, Asset Managers, Socially Responsible Investors, Hedge funds)

MSCI ESG Manager

Corporate sustainability and

annual reports ESG data from

peers and competitors

News and controversies -

sector and company specific (Bloomberg,

Reuters)

Legal (Lexis Nexis)and

government databases (TRI)

•Rating “AAA”or “C”

•ESG Indexes

•Reputational Risk Scores

CORPORATE ISSUERS (Board, Legal, Sustainability, IR, Compliance)

MSCI ESG Manager

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MSCI ESG Manager

ESG Manager, a product of MSCI made available to corporate issuers through ISS Corporate Services (ICS), is a research and analytics platform designed to help investors and companies analyze and manage environmental, social and governance factors.

View how your company is rated on environment and sustainability practices

Compare your company’s ESG rating to industry sector peers

Determine how ESG factors impact reputational risk

Learn how your company might be screened in and out of certain indices and funds based on your ESG performance

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Three Pillars of MSCI ESG Research

“I want to see if I am considered a best in class company selected by investors to mitigate financial ESG risk”

“I want to see what investors

think of my reputational risk”

“I want to see if my business activities are raising flags on ethics with investors”