See: MSCI.
No, it's not a particularly violent form of MMA. And it's not a new synthetic street drug popular at raves. Instead, MSCI is a company that provides investment analysis tools, including a number of well-known equity indices.
The firm started business in the late 1960s under the name Capital International. It formed a partnership with Morgan Stanley in the 1980s that led to the name change: Morgan Stanley Capital International, or MSCI.
The company is best known for indexes focused on various parts of the emerging world. Specifically, MSCI publishes the MSCI BRIC index, which covers the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. It also provides an emerging markets index, tracking performance in two dozen emerging market countries.
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All right we're picking daisies, marigolds, lilies so uh how do we [Pictures of flowers]
rephrase in Italian? Like, we want to fill a portfolio basket with just stocks [Pouring a glass of red wine]
representing the overall financial health of Italy. Is Italy healthy? While
they smoke a lot they drink a lot of wine they eat a bunch of pasta but there
always seems to be a woman from some small village who's celebrating her [Old woman at a birthday party]
117th birthday over there. Well a country basket is just an index fund of
stocks representing a country. Like we're doing Korea... South we're gonna have
in that basket dunno some Samsung, a load of Daewoo, a hunk of Hyundai and some [Company stocks being added to the basket]
nice barbecue on the side. That'd be our Korean country basket and it's a good
basket to fill if you're just bullish on a country but not really sure which
flower on which to place your bets. It's like instead of trying to decide between [The stocks in the basket turn into flowers]
roulette or poker or slots... Well you just buy stock in Las Vegas
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