MSCI Inc. (MSCI)

Index and investment data provider, half Asia Pacific. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 6, 2026. Ranked 91 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

MSCI’s 6,268 employees, half in Asia Pacific, build indexes and deliver analytics and sustainability data to investors, split by description between financial investment activities and data businesses.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 32% now, 59% at the end of 2027, 70% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 22% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 61% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

6,268 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 16% of employees are in the U.S. and Canada together, 51% in Asia Pacific, 24% in EMEA and 9% in Mexico and Brazil; the U.S. alone is not counted.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed 6,268 people, of which 51% of MSCI employees were located in the Asia Pacific region, 24% in Europe, Middle East and Africa, 16% in the U.S. and Canada, and 9% in Mexico and Brazil.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 6,268 employees in more than 27 countries, 51% in Asia Pacific; voluntary turnover 7% and involuntary 5%; a hybrid work model since 2022; an AI upskilling framework introduced in 2025.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)32% now, 70% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028
• BlackRock, Inc. (BLK, 24,900 employees)35% now, 71% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)36% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

54 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 54 times: AI to collect and validate data and deliver insights, content delivered through AI, and an AI upskilling framework for employees.

• “We use advanced technology, including artificial intelligence ("AI"), to improve how we collect and validate data and enhance the capabilities and insights we deliver to clients.”
• “As a result, the investment process is transforming, which is reflected in several key trends: Changing client strategies and operating models, influenced by fee compression, changing demographics, economic outlooks and the regulatory environment; Use of global, multi-asset-class and other complex strategies, including integration of public and private assets and factor exposure objectives into...”
• “Proprietary content, delivered at scale through flexible technology and AI.”
• “We use advanced technology, including AI, to strengthen data quality, expand coverage and accelerate how we deliver insights generated from our proprietary content.”
• “We also partner with global technology companies to accelerate the development of our AI capabilities to enhance our solutions, insights and the client experience.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20213median 0
• Fiscal 20223median 0
• Fiscal 202317median 1
• Fiscal 202433median 4
• Fiscal 202554median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• No count by segment; the split between the index business and the data and analytics businesses is by description, as for other ratings and index companies.
• The U.S. share is null: the filing counts the U.S. and Canada together.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001408198-26-000011, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.