{"id":13937,"date":"2023-08-11T05:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13937"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:03:43","slug":"msci-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/msci-index\/","title":{"rendered":"MSCI Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About MSCI Index<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is owned by the <strong>multinational investment management<\/strong> and financial services company Morgan Stanley.<\/li>\n<li>It is an investment research firm that <strong>provides stock indexes, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance<\/strong> tools to institutional investors and hedge funds.<\/li>\n<li>It is a leading provider of <strong>critical decision support tools, including stock indexes<\/strong>, and services for the global investment community.<\/li>\n<li>MSCI indices facilitate the construction and monitoring of portfolios in a cohesive and complete manner, avoiding benchmark misfit<strong>. It has over 160,000 indices in its portfolio.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>MSCI has indexes for countries, regions, emerging markets, developed markets, small cap, all cap and even Islamic indexes.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>selects stocks for its equity indexes that are easily traded and have high liquidity<\/strong>, with companies having high free float getting more weightage.<\/li>\n<li>It prefers stocks that have active investor participation, and are without owner restrictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is MSCI India Index?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The MSCI India Index is designed to measure <strong>the performance of the large and mid-cap segments of the Indian market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With 113 constituents, the index covers approximately 85% of the Indian equity universe.<\/li>\n<li>The index is <strong>reviewed quarterly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Stock indexes?<\/h3>\n<p>Stock indexes, also known as stock indices, are measures that track the performance of a specific group of stocks in a financial market. These indexes provide a snapshot of how a particular segment of the stock market is performing over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1947816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>REC doubles Market Cap in one year, figures in MSCI Global Standard Index<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSCI Index is owned by the multinational investment management and financial services company Morgan Stanley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}