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Colin Plunkett
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Investors Shouldn't Worry MSCI Is Spending More, Perhaps They Should Be Applauding

Ending what had been a remarkable run of elevated growth, wide-moat MSCI reported its first sequential decline in quarterly revenue since 2016, as the company ended the September quarter with $357.9 million in revenue, down 1.4% sequentially. Although MSCI continues to do everything a long-term investor could ask for, MSCI indexes third-quarter average assets under management were down 2.6% when compared with the June quarter, which proved to be too steep of a hill to climb for the firm to gener...
Underlying
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.

Provider
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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