Announcement for February 01, 2021 at 09:09 PM GMT

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

CONSULTATION ON A TREATMENT OF POTENTIAL INDEX ADDITIONS WITH EXTREME PRICE INCREASE DURING INDEX REVIEWS

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, launched today a consultation on a proposal to employ additional screening for potential additions and size-migrations to the Standard Indexes of the MSCI Global Investable Market Indexes (GIMI) that have been exhibiting extreme price increases.

The central aim of this proposal is to employ a sufficient time period to allow for potential stabilization of price discovery for securities exhibiting exceptionally high price returns and to reduce the scope for potential reverse turnover. This would build upon the existing seasoning treatment that MSCI applies for all but large initial public offerings (IPOs), as defined in the MSCI GIMI methodology.

Details on the proposal are available at: https://www.msci.com/index-consultations

MSCI welcomes feedback from the investment community until March 31, 2021. MSCI will announce the results of this consultation on or before April 16, 2021. As per the proposal, any treatment would be implemented starting from the May 2021 Semi-Annual Index Review.

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

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