What MSCI (MSCI)'s New Public–Private Equity Index Means For Shareholders

• MSCI has launched the MSCI All Country Public + Private Equity Index, a daily benchmark that blends the MSCI ACWI IMI with a new private equity index built from LP-sourced data on nearly 10,000 funds, targeting a 15% allocation to modelled private equity and rebalancing quarterly.
• This hybrid index gives investors a single framework to view public and private equity exposures together, potentially reshaping how institutions benchmark diversified, total-portfolio equity allocations.
• Next, we’ll examine how this public–private equity benchmark, with its 15% private allocation, could influence MSCI’s recurring revenue growth narrative.

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MSCI Investment Narrative Recap

To own MSCI, you need to believe in steady, recurring revenue from index and data products, with private markets becoming a larger part of that toolkit over time. The new public plus private equity index strengthens MSCI’s private assets proposition, but its near term impact on the key catalyst of subscription and ABF growth looks incremental. The biggest current risk around dependence on private markets data sources does not appear materially changed by this launch.

The launch of the MSCI All Country Public + Private Equity Index sits squarely within MSCI’s broader push into private capital tools, including earlier 2025 private markets index and data releases. Together, these offerings aim to deepen MSCI’s role in how institutions benchmark total portfolios, which ties back to the catalyst of expanding high margin subscription and analytics revenue across a more diversified client base.

Yet while the product story is compelling, investors should be aware that MSCI’s reliance on external private markets data and data sharing agreements...

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MSCI's narrative projects $3.8 billion revenue and $1.6 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 8.5% yearly revenue growth and an earnings increase of about $0.4 billion from $1.2 billion today.

Uncover how MSCI's forecasts yield a $657.56 fair value, a 22% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Seven Simply Wall St Community valuations for MSCI span roughly US$520.90 to US$686.08 per share, underlining how far opinions can diverge. Against that backdrop, the push into public plus private equity benchmarks raises fresh questions about how much growth MSCI can really extract from private assets over time, so you may want to compare several of these perspectives before deciding what you think.

Explore 7 other fair value estimates on MSCI - why the stock might be worth as much as 27% more than the current price!

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