Leading Global Index Provider MSCI Has No Plans to Decouple From China

Leading Global Index Provider MSCI Has No Plans to Decouple From China
Medical workers spray antiseptic outside of the main gate of Shanghai Stock Exchange Building in Shanghai on Feb. 03, 2020. Yifan Ding/Getty Images
Emel Akan
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WASHINGTON—Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), one of the largest index providers in the world that influence how investors deploy their funds, has no plans to adjust its global indexes to exclude companies owned by the Chinese Communist regime, despite mounting concerns over national security and human rights.

During the annual shareholder meeting on April 28, MSCI Chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez expressed no plans to consider removing China’s state-owned companies from its indexes.

Emel Akan
Emel Akan
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Emel Akan is a senior White House correspondent for The Epoch Times, where she covers the policies of the Trump administration. Previously, she reported on the Biden administration and the first term of President Trump. Before her journalism career, she worked in investment banking at JPMorgan. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
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