• Enhanced Risk Insights: Collaboration provides asset-level physical risk insights for financial institutions.
• Strategic Risk Management: Empowers clients to assess and mitigate physical risks across diverse portfolios.
• Global Resilience Focus: Supports building resilient investment strategies in a changing climate.

MSCI and Swiss Re Reinsurance Solutions are collaborating to strengthen the financial sector’s approach to physical climate risk management. The partnership integrates MSCI’s GeoSpatial Asset Intelligence with Swiss Re’s proprietary natural catastrophe and climate risk data.

The initiative aims to offer financial institutions detailed, asset-level physical risk insights, enabling them to craft unified strategies to assess and mitigate risks across individual assets, private and public companies, global portfolios, and loan books.

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Richard Mattison, Global Head of ESG and Climate at MSCI, said:
“Our innovative collaboration with Swiss Re is a significant leap forward in advancing physical risk insights for financial institutions. By delivering precise, location-based intelligence, we empower clients to navigate the evolving risk landscape with confidence and build more resilient investment strategies.”

Ali Shahkarami, Global Head of P&C Solutions at Swiss Re, highlighted the broader impact:
“We are committed to providing accurate data and best-in-class physical risk insights to the market. This cooperation will benefit financial institutions globally, aligning with our vision of making the world more resilient.”

Swiss Re also expressed its enthusiasm on social media:
“We are excited about our collaboration with MSCI Inc., which will enable the financial sector to better assess and manage physical climate risks by leveraging Swiss Re’s CatNet® data and other natural catastrophe risk insights.”

For C-suite executives, investors, and financial leaders, this collaboration signals a critical advancement in building robust, climate-resilient portfolios.

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