MSCI Appoints Jana Haines as Head of Index
30 November 2023 - 3:14PM
Business Wire
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of mission-critical
decision support tools and services for the global investment
community, today announced that Jana Haines has joined the firm as
Head of Index and as a member of MSCI’s Executive Committee.
Based in New York, Ms. Haines will be responsible for the
strategic development and execution of MSCI’s global Index product
line. She will partner with senior leaders across the firm to
manage the Index product development process. Ms. Haines will aim
to drive innovation across index categories, including market cap,
sustainability, climate, factors, thematics and asset classes, such
as fixed income and private assets.
"As a longtime business leader, Jana has a proven track record
of strategic thinking and a unique understanding of the value of
MSCI’s indexes to investors,” said Baer Pettit, President and Chief
Operating Officer of MSCI. “Jana’s extensive expertise in the
global financial industry will be critical to MSCI building an even
deeper understanding of our clients’ evolving needs for indexes
that help them build better portfolios and develop investable
financial products.”
Ms. Haines held a variety of senior leadership roles at MSCI
from 2006 to 2021. Most recently, she served as Head of Index
Product for Americas and EMEA, and Global Head of Fixed Income
Indexes. Earlier in her tenure at MSCI, she held various roles
within the Client Coverage team.
Since 2021, Ms. Haines was the Chief Strategy Officer of ARK
Investments, where she worked alongside CEO Cathie Wood. She was
instrumental in ARK’s transition to a scalable business and
expanding the firm’s global partnerships.
Before she joined MSCI in 2006, Ms. Haines garnered diverse
experience in financial markets at HypoVereinsbank and Richie
Capital. She also co-founded the Private Equity Group in Prague.
Ms. Haines holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School
of Business.
“I am deeply excited to rejoin MSCI at this time of tremendous
innovation and expansion of the investment community’s needs and
uses for indexes,” said Ms. Haines. “From diversification to
decarbonization goals, investors need differentiated, high-quality
data and timely insights to confidently drive outcomes in an
ever-changing world. MSCI is uniquely well-placed to serve these
needs of investors through the creation and management of
best-in-class indexes, and I am looking forward to leading the next
phase of innovation at MSCI to help our clients make better
investment decisions.”
About MSCI Inc.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools
and services for the global investment community. With over 50
years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power
better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and
analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more
effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced
solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve
transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please
visit www.msci.com.
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