MSCI World
The MSCI World is a market cap weighted stock market index of 1,644[1] stocks from companies throughout the world. The components can be found here: [2]. It is maintained by MSCI, formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International, and is used as a common benchmark for 'world' or 'global' stock funds intended to represent a broad cross-section of global markets.
The index includes a collection of stocks of all the developed markets in the world, as defined by MSCI. The index includes securities from 23 countries but excludes stocks from emerging and frontier economies making it less worldwide than the name suggests. A related index, the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI), incorporated both developed and emerging countries. MSCI also produces a Frontier Markets index, including another 31 markets.
The MSCI World Index has been calculated since 1969,[3] in various forms: without dividends (Price Index), with net or with gross dividends reinvested (Net and Gross Index), in US dollars, Euro and local currencies.
Countries/Regions
The index includes companies in the following countries/regions:
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Total annual returns
| Year | Gross Annual Return (a) |
|---|---|
| 1970 | −1.98% |
| 1971 | 19.56% |
| 1972 | 23.55% |
| 1973 | −14.51% |
| 1974 | −24.48% |
| 1975 | 34.50% |
| 1976 | 14.71% |
| 1977 | 5.00% |
| 1978 | 18.22% |
| 1979 | 12.67% |
| 1980 | 27.72% |
| 1981 | −3.30% |
| 1982 | 11.27% |
| 1983 | 23.28% |
| 1984 | 5.77% |
| 1985 | 41.77% |
| 1986 | 42.80% |
| 1987 | 16.76% |
| 1988 | 23.95% |
| 1989 | 17.19% |
| 1990 | −16.52% |
| 1991 | 18.97% |
| 1992 | −4.66% |
| 1993 | 23.13% |
| 1994 | 5.58% |
| 1995 | 21.32% |
| 1996 | 14.00% |
| 1997 | 16.23% |
| 1998 | 24.80% |
| 1999 | 25.34% |
| 2000 | −12.92% |
| 2001 | −16.52% |
| 2002 | −19.54% |
| 2003 | 33.76% |
| 2004 | 15.25% |
| 2005 | 10.02% |
| 2006 | 20.65% |
| 2007 | 9.57% |
| 2008 | −40.33% |
| 2009 | 30.79% |
| 2010 | 12.34% |
| 2011 | −5.02% |
| 2012 | 16.54% |
| 2013 | 27.37% |
| 2014 | 5.50% |
| 2015 | −0.32% |
| 2016 | 8.15% |
| 2017 | 23.07% |
| 2018 | −8.20% |
| 2019 | 28.40% |
- (a) Total returns including reinvested dividends.[4][5]
MSCI started to partially include China large-cap A shares in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index on May 31st, 2018. Under the current partial inclusion plan, China A shares will have a weight of 5% this year (split into two phases). In the event of full inclusion, China equities would exceed 40% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index
References
- "Developed Markets Indices" (PDF). msci.com.
- "MSCI World Index: Constituents". msci.com.
- start date of MSCI World FREE index history is December 31, 1969
- "Index tools - MSCI". mscibarra.com.
- "MSCI WORLD INDEX (USD)". Retrieved 12 January 2019.