MSCI Inc. (MSCI) Presents at Barclays 24th Annual Global Financial Services Conference Transcript
MSCI Inc. (MSCI) Barclays 24th Annual Global Financial Services Conference September 14, 2026 10:30 AM EDT
Company Participants
Andrew Wiechmann – CFO & Interim Principal Accounting Officer
Conference Call Participants
Manav Patnaik – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Presentation
Manav Patnaik
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
All right. Good morning, everybody. We’ll start on time here. Thank you, everybody, for joining us at Barclays’ 24th Annual Financial Services Conference. My name is Manav Patnaik. I cover business and information services for Barclays, a lot of the financial information services companies, and one of them includes MSCI. So very happy to kick off our contribution to the conference today with Andy Wiechmann, CFO of MSCI.
Andy, thanks for being here.
Andrew Wiechmann
CFO & Interim Principal Accounting Officer
Absolutely. Happy to be here. Great event. Great turnout, and fun to be jumping into it in September here.
Question-and-Answer Session
Manav Patnaik
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Exactly. So Andy, maybe just a broad, high-level question. Obviously, the markets have a lot of macro noise, rate noise, geopolitical noise to decipher. But for your business specifically, what is kind of the overall sentiment and some of the observations from — you’re getting from your clients and how they’re interacting with you?
Andrew Wiechmann
CFO & Interim Principal Accounting Officer
Yes. So it’s a dynamic environment. There is not only the macro geopolitical dynamics that you alluded to. There’s the AI change taking place, but there are structural changes taking place within the capital markets and the investment industry. And so you’re seeing this move towards more systematic investing is the term we use. You see that manifest itself in more multi-asset class portfolios, things like direct indexes, basket trade, the total portfolio approach. You’re seeing it in structured products, fixed index annuities.
