MSCI Inc. is an American finance company headquartered in New York City. MSCI is a global provider of equity, fixed income, real estate indices, multi-asset portfolio analysis tools, ESG and climate products. It operates the MSCI World, MSCI All Country World Index, and MSCI Emerging Markets Indices, among others. MSCI is an abbreviation for Morgan Stanley Capital International. The company is headquartered at 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan. Its business primarily consists of licensing its indices to index funds, which pay a fee of around 0.02 to 0.04 percent of the invested volume for the use of the index. As of 2025, funds worth over 16.5 trillion US$ were based on MSCI indices. Wikipedia