MSCI’s Public Markets Client Advisory Panel is an exclusive forum where senior investment professionals across leading financial institutions come together to discuss trends and share best practices with industry peers. During the discussion, MSCI will share highlights from its Research Roadmap and engage on key areas of investment at MSCI that will help address critical investment management problems. Moderating the discussion will be MSCI’s Dimitris Melas, Managing Director and Global Head of Index Research and Product Development and Xinxin Wang, Executive Director, Head of ESG and Climate Solutions Research Americas.
Immediately following the Advisory Panel, we hope you will join us for the Welcome Reception to the
Institutional Investor Forum at Hyatt Regency Sacramento at 4:30pm.
We look forward to discussing the following topics:
- Challenges for index tracking portfolios in an ever-evolving investment landscape: The trends in equity market concentration and deglobalization are impacting investors from both a portfolio construction and a regulatory perspective. We would like to discuss challenges and potential options for index enhancements in terms of global size segmentation, market classification, and index concentration.
- Exploring a potential new holistic framework to integrate climate in the investment process: Climate change may well be the defining challenge of the 21st century and, and for many institutional investors, managing addressing climate risk and opportunities has become an ever-more important tenet of the investment process. Given the complexity and uncertainty of dealing with climate, we would like to better understand the spectrum of client views and constraints on climate and how this may have changed in recent years.
