MSCI has entered into a strategic relationship with The Burgiss Group. As part of the alliance, MSCI will invest $190 million in Burgiss for a significant minority interest.
Burgiss’ offerings include private asset transparency and performance benchmark tools delivered through a unified portfolio management platform, including leading research-quality performance data covering close to 10,000 private asset funds around the world representing nearly $7 trillion of committed capital in private equity, private real estate, private debt, infrastructure and natural resource funds. Burgiss serves more than 1,000 firms in 36 countries and about 300 employees across the United States, Europe and South Africa. With MSCI’s client base of over 7,500 in more than 85 countries, and its leading position in private real estate data, analytics and research; equity and fixed-income indexes; environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and ratings; and portfolio performance and risk