当前 AI 交易已成为股市波动的主要来源之一，市场情绪在对技术经济前景的乐观与对庞大资本支出的担忧之间反复摆荡。MSCI 指出，投资人面临的挑战往往不是识别 AI 部位，而是将其细分与拆解；该模组化指数提供了基于规则的构建工具，使投资人能依需求精准增减特定层级的部位，而非进行无差别的整体下注。
此外，MSCI 依据 7 月与新加坡交易所（SGX）达成的协议，正式推出了多达 100 档与其指数挂钩的期货和选择权合约。此合作涵盖已开发与新兴市场以及公用事业、工业、能源与金融等主要板块，不仅深化了新交所与 MSCI 的合作关系，也推进了新加坡扩展亚洲时区衍生品流动性与相关产品线的布局。
MSCI Inc. has launched a series of artificial intelligence value chain indexes designed to help investors hedge their industry exposure with greater precision. The 14 newly introduced indexes span global companies across the entire AI supply chain—from physical and digital infrastructure to software applications—enabling market participants to assess exposure at specific layers or component levels and respond promptly when operational bottlenecks arise.
This initiative arrives as the AI trade becomes a primary driver of equity market volatility, with sentiment fluctuating between optimism over transformative economic benefits and anxiety regarding massive capital expenditure. According to MSCI, clients primarily seek to decompose rather than merely identify AI exposure, and these modular, rules-based indexes allow investors to fine-tune specific risk layers rather than taking an undifferentiated, all-or-nothing position.
Separately, under a July partnership agreement with Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX), MSCI has officially rolled out up to 100 new futures and options contracts linked to its benchmark indexes. Covering both developed and emerging markets alongside key sectors such as utilities, industrials, energy, and financials, the agreement deepens SGX's collaboration with MSCI while bolstering derivative liquidity and hedging tools within the Asian time zone.