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Colin Plunkett
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MSCI Stressing the Importance of ESG

Wide-moat MSCI continues to benefit from booming markets and the shift to passive investing. For the quarter, revenue amounted to $351 million, representing year-over-year growth of 16.6%. Much of this growth was driven by asset-based fees of $85 million. Revenue linked to asset-based fees has increased a staggering 48.7% over the past year and 8.9% from the previous quarter. In addition, the "all other" segment saw revenue growth of 20%, mostly driven by growth in its environmental, social, and...
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MSCI Inc. Class A

MSCI is a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The company's segments are: Index, in which Clients use the company's indexes in various areas of the investment process, including index-linked product creation; Analytics, which provides risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, applications and services; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), which helps institutional investors understand how ESG considerations can impact the long-term risk and reward of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and Real Estate, which includes research, reporting, market data and benchmarking offerings.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Colin Plunkett

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