MSCI Inc (NYSE:MSCI)

MSCI, Inc. provides investment decision support tools, including indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics and corporate governance products and services. Its products and services address multiple markets, asset classes and geographies and are sold to a diverse client base including asset owners, such as pension funds, endowments, foundations, central banks, family offices and insurance companies; institutional and retail asset managers, such as managers of pension assets, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds and private wealth; financial intermediaries, such as banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, custodians and investment consultants, and corporate clients. The company operates its business through two segments: Performance and Risk business, and Governance business. The Performance and Risk segment products consist of indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, credit analytics and ESG products. It offers products in the areas of energy and commodity asset valuation analytics and fixed income portfolio analytics and products are generally comprised of proprietary index data, proprietary risk and analytics data and ESG ratings, analysis and research delivered via data feeds and proprietary software applications. The Governance business segment provides corporate governance and financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations around the world. The company categorize its Governance business segment into three distinct categories: Proxy Research and Voting, Global Proxy Distribution and Securities Class Action Services, ISS Corporate Services and Financial Research and Analysis. MSCI was founded by Andrew Thomas Rudd in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, NY.