Capital Markets #1 with MSCI CEO Henry Fernandez: What goes into an index?

a16z Live - A podcast by Andreessen Horowitz

MSCI Inc manages the world index, tracking more than 20,000 companies in developed, emerging, and frontier economies, and is critical to benchmarking investment opportunity as well as risk and portfolio performance. In this Clubhouse conversation, MSCI CEO Henry Fernandez talks with Alex Rampell and Scott Kupor about how MSCI got started, how they construct an index and keep it accurate, the business model around indices, and the renewed importance of ESG in evaluating investments.