What the market thinks
How participants across capital markets are tackling systemic challenges

Our “What the Market Thinks” series examines how participants across the capital-markets ecosystem are navigating systemic challenges. Combining market perspectives and data, the reports help practitioners, academic researchers and policymakers inform decision-making and benchmark progress.
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Corporate Resilience Survey

Linda-Eling Lee, Katie Towey, Umar Ashfaq

Companies are operationalizing physical risk management, according to this MSCI Institute study examining the views of risk, operations and finance officers at listed and unlisted companies across regions and sectors. Combining respondents’ perspectives with MSCI data, the report offers insights for policymakers and investors into how companies are addressing the rise in physical risk.

October 2025 37 exhibits

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Severe weather events or natural disasters that have affected companies surveyed in the past five years (%)
Severe weather events or natural disasters

Climate Risk Investor Survey

Linda-Eling Lee, Oliver Marchand and Russ Bowdrey

The world’s investors expect the risks of severe weather events to escalate and think that global action to date is insufficient to stave off the costliest warming, according to a study conducted by the MSCI Institute designed to capture how investment and risk professionals view our climate future.

October 2024 27 exhibits

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How likely are governments to meet their climate commitments? (% of respondents)

Source: “What the Market Thinks: A Climate Risk Survey,” MSCI Sustainability Institute, October 2024