MSCI provides decision support tools and solutions for the global investment community. Co.'s segments include: Index, in which clients use Co.'s indexes in various areas of the investment process, including for indexed product creation, performance benchmarking, portfolio construction and rebalancing, and asset allocation; Analytics, which provides risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, applications and services; and ESG and Climate, which provides products and services that help institutional investors understand how ESG and climate considerations can impact the long-term risk and return of their portfolio and individual security-level investments. The MSCI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MSCI YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether MSCI YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MSCI YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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