In a 2024, a majority (52%) of the world’s listed companies in developed markets — and 46% across all markets — proactively reached out to provide MSCI with updated sustainability-related information or to verify data we’ve already collected, according to staff on our issuer relations team. That’s a six-fold increase over the past decade, when we started a dedicated program for all the companies that we cover to provide such feedback.
Source: MSCI ESG Research, data as of Dec. 31, 2024. Markets represented by the MSCI World IMI Index, the MSCI ACWI IMI Index, and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, respectively. Proactive issuer outreach is the percentage of companies in the relevant MSCI index that have reached out in a given year and is one measure of proactive issuer engagement. Proactive data feedback rate is the percentage of corporate issuers in the MSCI ESG Ratings industry universe that submitted voluntary data feedback through our online issuer portal during that year.