About MSCI
MSCI is a data provider used to run the Indicative ESG score check in Maxsight. It offers standardized ESG data that helps assess a company's sustainability performance across environmental, social, and governance dimensions.
How an Indicative ESG score check works with MSCI
This is the default behaviour for a variant of the Indicative ESG score check with MSCI as the data provider.
To perform the check, Maxsight sends the BvD ID recorded for the company to MSCI. If this BvD ID matches a company within MSCI's coverage universe, MSCI returns indicative ESG scores. The scores are compared against your configured thresholds. The check passes when all scores meet or exceed the specified thresholds.
The results returned by MSCI include:
An overall indicative ESG score on a 0.0 to 10.0 scale, where 0.0 represents the weakest performance and 10 the strongest.
Sub-scores across the environmental, social, and governance pillars.
Sector- and Industry-aligned benchmarks for contextual comparison.
The Indicative ESG score summary section of the MSCI results includes the following:
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Environmental pillar indicative score | Measures how well the company manages financially material environmental risk factors. |
Environmental pillar indicative weight | Indicates the impact of environmental factors on the overall score. |
Social pillar indicative score | Measures how well the company manages financially material social risk factors. |
Social pillar indicative weight | Indicates the impact of social factors on the overall score. |
Governance pillar indicative score | Measures how well the company manages financially material governance risk factors. |
Governance pillar indicative weight | Indicates the impact of governance factors on the overall score. |
Industry adjusted ESG indicative score | Normalized score based on performance relative to industry peers. |
Indicative ESG score industry min | Represents the lowest typical performance, based on the 5th percentile, within the relevant industry. |
Indicative ESG score industry max | Represents the highest typical performance, based on the 95th percentile, within the relevant industry. |
The Detailed indicative ESG score summary further breaks down each pillar score into weighted scores across individual contributing factors.