MSCI Inc. (MSCI)

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MSCI Inc.

7 World Trade Center
49th Floor 250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
United States
212 804 3900
https://www.msci.com

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
Full-time employees: 4,980

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Henry A. Fernandez	Chairman & CEO	3M	N/A	1958
Mr. C. D. Baer Pettit	Pres, COO & Director	2.18M	N/A	1965
Mr. Andrew C. Wiechmann	CFO & Interim Principal Accounting Officer	1.28M	N/A	1980
Mr. Robert J. Gutowski	Gen. Counsel	1.14M	N/A	1968
Mr. Scott A. Crum	Chief HR Officer	1.31M	N/A	1957
Mr. Jigar Thakkar	CTO & Head of Engineering	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jeremy H. Ulan	Head of Investor Relations & Treasurer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Cristina Bondolowski	Chief Marketing & Communications Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Remy Briand	Chief Product Officer & Head of Index	N/A	N/A	1966
Mr. Theodore Niggli	Managing Director	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

MSCI Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides investment decision support tools for the clients to manage their investment processes worldwide. It operates through four segments: Index, Analytics, ESG and Climate, and All Other – Private Assets. The Index segment provides indexes for use in various areas of the investment process, including indexed product creation, such as ETFs, mutual funds, annuities, futures, options, structured products, over-the-counter derivatives; performance benchmarking; portfolio construction and rebalancing; and asset allocation, as well as licenses GICS and GICS Direct. The Analytics segment offers risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, application, and service that provides an integrated view of risk and return, and an analysis of market, credit, liquidity, and counterparty risk across asset classes; managed services, including consolidation of client portfolio data from various sources, review and reconciliation of input data and results, and customized reporting; and HedgePlatform to measure, evaluate, and monitor the risk of hedge fund investments. The ESG and Climate segment provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG factors impact the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and data, ratings, research, and tools to help investors navigate increasing regulation. The All Other – Private Assets segment includes real estate market and transaction data, benchmarks, return-analytics, climate assessments and market insights for funds, investors, and managers; business intelligence to real estate owners, managers, developers, and brokers; and offers investment decision support tools for private capital. It serves asset owners and managers, financial intermediaries, wealth managers, real estate professionals, and corporates. MSCI Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Corporate governance

MSCI Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 September 2023 is 7. The pillar scores are Audit: 6; Board: 5; Shareholder rights: 8; Compensation: 6.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.