Morning Edition · Sunday, August 16, 2026Published at 1:37 AM EDT · New York

MSCI Proposes an Index Screen That Would Delete Strategy, and the Company Says Index Providers Should Not Pick Assets

The asset-agnostic test names no digital asset, but applied to May data it removes Strategy, Metaplanet and a uranium holder from a benchmark tracked by passive money.

MSCI opened a public consultation on 14 August that would make what it calls non-operating companies ineligible for its Global Investable Market Indexes. The proposed screen applies an operating-asset threshold followed by five financial ra…