MSCI ESG Ratings assess companies' resilience to financially relevant, industry-specific sustainability risks. Each company receives an industry-relative letter rating from AAA to CCC, based on a rules-based methodology that identifies industry leaders and laggards. Pension funds, asset managers, endowments and other investors use the ratings in their investment processes, and corporate issuers can also review their own assessments. According to MSCI, coverage spans thousands of issuers and securities worldwide. Access is arranged by contacting MSCI.
MSCI Inc. is a listed US company headquartered in New York; MSCI Limited in London is an affiliate. The ratings are a data source rather than an application in which you store your own data, but when users work with MSCI portals, MSCI processes their personal data as controller. Its privacy notice includes rights under the GDPR for users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. MSCI's privacy notice does not state where the data is hosted. For European financial institutions, the main sovereignty consideration is dependence on a US provider for ESG data and methodology.