Wall Street's had to go through big changes over the years.

Before to play with data, you had to go to someone else, manipulate it, ask them for more data.

The speed of Ridgeline helps me do that in one place, at one time, in one moment.

Ridgeline is a cumulative advantage.

Hello everyone and welcome to At Barrens. I'm Andy Serwer and welcome to our guest,

Henry Fernandez, CEO of MSCI. Henry, great to see you.

Thanks for having me.

So MSCI, the old Morgan Stanley Capital Index, there's a long history there.

Give us some of that back story, please, Henry, to start us off.

So in those days, back in the mid to late 80s,

I thought that, I thought about, you know, these indices

because they were a joint venture between the Morgan Stanley and the Capital Group,

set up around 88, 89, something like that.

And it was interesting to follow them because, you know, they had the name of Morgan Stanley

and it was performance of global markets and all of that.

So anyhow, you roll the clock forward 10 years after in the kind of late night, mid to late 90s,

I was trying to figure out whether I should leave Morgan Stanley to set up a venture,

which I had already done once, an entrepreneurial venture,

or whether I should look at a part of Morgan Stanley and make it highly entrepreneurial and see if I could develop a third division of Morgan Stanley.

So I thought about the idea of creating an investment tools company, investment infrastructure, investment tools,

and wrote some papers around it.

We went to talk to the management committee of Morgan Stanley.

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