BlackRock to create index funds on new MSCI ESG series

Digital render of cigar smoking fantasy soldier with huge Gatling gun style weapon — MSCI's ESG series screens out cluster bombs, landmines, chemical, biological, and depleted uranium weapons

Magda Ali
28 Jun 2011

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Index provider MSCI has launched 25 environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes that will form the basis of a series of BlackRock index funds.

“We are seeing a lot of interest from high-net-worth individuals down to retail investors [who] recognise the importance of these issues and [are] seeking a means of evaluating the risks and opportunities associated with them,” says Thomas Kuh, executive director at MSCI ESG Indices in London.

The launch includes nine MSCI Global ex Controversial

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