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MSCI’s thematic investment framework is highly customizable and can be quickly adapted to a variety of products and models. Institutional and high-net-worth investors alike use different approaches to implement thematic investing into their investment process—including thematic allocation to act as a hedge for existing positions; an implicit underweighting to companies facing disruption; a source of uncorrelated returns and diversification.
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Thematic Investing
A top-down investment approach, designed to capitalize on opportunities created by macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological trends that are both structural and transformative in nature.
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Structural economic changes—such as shifting demographics and social change, technological breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, climate change and resource scarcity—are evolving at an ever-faster pace.
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If you would like further information about Thematic Investing, please reach out to your MSCI representative.
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Our thematic indexes directly capture the theme using a rules-based methodology that is scalable and flexible.
Learn MoreIndexing Change: Understanding MSCI Thematic Indexes
In this paper, we review the concept of thematic investing and discuss the differences between it and the factor and ESG investment processes.
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