Sector developments and company hires

MSCI has announced its entry into a strategic collaboration with MarketAxess to establish new portfolio analytics solutions and fixed income indexes. The two firms hope to improve the fixed income investment process, empower investors, and drive innovation through their collaboration by developing portfolio optimisation, trading, and analytics tools. The collaboration will rely on MarketAxess’ fixed income indexes and AI-informed pricing and liquidity measures integrated into the MSCI house of portfolio construction analytics tools. The news follows the recent launch of MarketAxess’ investment grade 400 corporate bond index, the MKTX 400 Index, and is firmly in line with its commitment to developing practical and innovative data solutions for the fixed income market.