MSCI: no room for black-box despite growing appetite for new approaches

The index provider is collaborating with Salt Financial, a provider of risk-focused tools and index design for retirement solutions and investment management, to create risk-controlled index solutions for insurance companies using Salt's patent-pending truVol Risk Control Engine (RCE). QIS desks are happy to calculate their own indices, but they also come to us to license our universe of indexes, or our factor and ESG data - Stephane Mattatia In early July, MSCI partnered with US alternative