STANDARD ANNOUNCEMENTS - February 06, 2020 at 09:19 PM GMT
Announcement for February 06, 2020 at 09:19 PM GMT

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

TREATMENT OF NEW SUSTAINABLE IMPACT CATEGORIES IN THE MSCI ESG INDEXES

In January 2020, MSCI ESG Research announced the introduction of new Sustainable
Agriculture and Connectivity categories to its Sustainable Impact Metrics
product.

MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of research-based indexes and
analytics, clarifies that it will continue to use cumulative percentage of sales
derived from all sustainable impact categories for the selection and weighting
of companies in the MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index. Hence, sales from the
new Sustainable Agriculture and Connectivity categories will be considered
starting from the February 2020 Quarterly Index Review.

MSCI also clarifies that it will continue to use cumulative percentage of sales
derived from all clean tech categories within the sustainable impact categories
for the selection of companies in the MSCI Global Environment Index. Hence,
sales from the new Sustainable Agriculture category will be considered starting
from the February 2020 Quarterly Index Review.

MSCI will make available the updated methodology books for the MSCI ACWI
Sustainable Impact Index and the MSCI Global Environment Index on or before
February 18, 2020 and will send a further announcement accordingly.

For further information on MSCI indexes or MSCI data, please visit our web site
at www.msci.com, or contact:

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THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE MSCI GLOBAL STANDARD INDEXES

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