MSCI Investment Solutions as a Service will
leverage Microsoft’s cloud and AI to enable investors to build
better portfolios for a better world
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of investment
decision support tools and services, today announced the
development of Investment Solutions as a Service for the global
investment industry in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. The new
service will allow institutional investors to use next generation
technologies, advanced analytics and big data to help anticipate
and address key strategic and investment challenges.
Built to align long-term technology and data trends with the
immediate needs of investors, the service will combine Microsoft’s
Cloud and AI technologies with MSCI’s extensive data sets,
analytical models and deep expertise of the global investment
industry to power next-generation investment decision making.
Investment Solutions as a Service will transform the investment
process and experience, beginning with the following services
launching in 2021:
- ESG Solutions as a Service
- Index Solutions as a Service
- Data Management Solutions as a Service
- Investment Analytics Solutions as a Service
The launch of these services reflects the increasing demand for
technologies that offer “solutions as a service”, harness big data
and provide customized experiences. The solutions are a part of the
strategic alliance created between MSCI and Microsoft in 2020 to
accelerate innovation in the global investment industry.
“The partnership with Microsoft underscores MSCI’s continued
commitment to develop new and innovative investing solutions,” said
Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO, MSCI. “We have combined
Microsoft’s best of breed technology with our robust data and
analytical capabilities and rigorous understanding of client
challenges to create a suite of services to empower investors. From
responding to the historic and unrivalled challenge of climate
change, to harnessing the power of big data and innovative
analytics, Investment Solutions as a Service is a milestone in
powering the next generation of investment decision making.”
“MSCI and Microsoft share a commitment to accelerating
innovation in the financial services industry,” said Scott
Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI, Microsoft.
“MSCI’s investment solutions, combined with the data and analytics
capabilities of Microsoft Azure, will enable investment managers to
harness intelligent insights needed to confidently navigate today’s
global markets.”
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Solutions as a
Service
With ESG firmly established as a high-priority issue for global
investors and corporations, ESG Solutions as a Service will help
them better understand, analyze and interpret the investment and
business risks and opportunities that climate change brings.
Leveraging Microsoft’s Azure and PowerBI platforms, investors will
be able to evaluate industries and companies with the world’s
leading ESG analytics, and corporations will be able to understand
their risk assessment when compared to their peers. The service
will provide detailed insights on companies’ adaptive capacity to
climate change, carbon footprint measurements, as well as exposure
to physical risk, including climate-related events such as
hurricanes and flooding.
Index Solutions as a Service
Index Solutions as a Service will provide investors with the
opportunity to create and customize indexes, marking the first time
clients will have MSCI’s index construction capabilities at their
fingertips. The service is aimed at delivering an insightful and
efficient experience that shortens the time from market hypothesis
to new customized indexes. Built on Microsoft Azure, Index
Solutions as a Service leverages the insights created through
MSCI’s 50+ years of index experience. It will provide clients with
a seamless, self-service experience to create, back test and
analyze customized indexes; compare those indexes against
established benchmarks; refine their creations through an iterative
process and order them from MSCI.
Data Management Solutions as a Service & Investment
Analytics Solutions as a Service
With Data Management Solutions as a Service and Investment
Analytics Solutions as a Service, investors can directly discover
and access in a new and dynamic manner a rich and extensive store
of data sets and robust analytical capabilities from MSCI’s
powerful investment solutions today. MSCI will be releasing a new
Developer Portal offering APIs that seamlessly integrate with
clients’ existing ecosystems. Through the Developer Portal,
developers and researchers can find, select and analyze historical
markets data on a range of asset classes and develop their own
investment solutions that meet their specific risk and portfolio
construction needs.
“The launch of MSCI’s Investment Solutions as a Service
is the latest example of our continuous innovation and drive to
develop cutting-edge technologies,” said Jigar Thakkar, Chief
Technology Officer and Head of Engineering, MSCI. “We recognize
that our clients are operating in an increasingly complex
environment where the need for intelligent insights for portfolio
management and risk analysis has never been more important. Our new
services will provide a friction-free experience with rapid
self-customization and exploration of our data sets, putting power
in the hands of investors like never before.”
About MSCI
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools
and services for the global investment community. With over 50
years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power
better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and
analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more
effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve
transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please
visit www.msci.com.
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