News from the world of indexes

MSCI has launched a multiple-asset class index, which combines – on a market capitalisation weighted basis – the components of the MSCI All Country World Equity IndexSM and the MSCI Global Total Bond IndexSM, to provide a representation of the global capital markets.

"No other index provider has the whole suite of indexes to create a global multi-asset index like this," says Boston-based Khalid Ghayur, global head of benchmark research at MSCI Barra. Previously, investors had to combine