Clients had voiced concerns about “an upward drift in ratings across the fund universe,” which is now being addressed, according to MSCI ESG Research.The changes mean that only 0.2% of funds ...

LONDON – MSCI awards higher ESG ratings to top-performing stocks in a bid to make its index offerings appear more attractive, according to new academic research. A paper from Columbia University ...

MSCI’s main methodological change is now to derive the ESG Quality Score that underlies MSCI ESG Fund Ratings “from a simple weighted average of the ESG scores of the underlying holdings.

Some 31,000 funds are about to have their ESG scores lowered at MSCI Inc., as the firm’s ratings unit works through a major overhaul of its methodology in response to feedback from market ...

One of the most widely referenced ESG rating systems is the MSCI ESG score. MSCI scores roughly 8,500 companies and more than 680,000 fixed-income and equity securities globally, including ESG funds .