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QS Investors NACM CESCE Kamakura Corporation EADS KSURE piraeus bank Arab written OPIC FCIB Fifth Third Bank

Political and country risk assessment becomes particularly meaningful when it is quantified over time and between jurisdictions, and when it is applied to the behavior and protection of assets.

International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)

CountryData Online (CDO)

Political Risk Services (PRS)

From the CEO
Christopher McKee

PRS Artificial Intelligence Initiative

For over 40 years, The PRS Group has been the trusted source for reliable, quant-driven political and country risk forecasts and ratings. LEARN MORE

Satellite Data Analysis Group

PRS has now embarked into the fields of remote sensing & image processing, spatial data analysis, and geographic information system (GIS) mapping. LEARN MORE

Litigation Support Group

How can the political risk premium on assets be quantified and accepted by the courts? How can the results aid in the litigation or settlement process? LEARN MORE

Anti-Corruption and Investment Climate Group

In 2016, PRS put into play its Anti-Corruption and Investment Climate (ACIC) group. LEARN MORE

Private Client Advantage

Political risk is profitable. The key is to harness the power of risk and translate that force into investible actions. LEARN MORE

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The PRS Group provides a full array of both product lines for review by potential clients. REQUEST FREE SAMPLE

For over 40 years, PRS’ unique, quant-driven political and country risk analyses, forecasting, and data series have been the world’s leader.

PRS makes political risk commercially relevant to firms and investors with asset portfolios and operations on the ground, and to the globe’s leading researchers and scientists.

PRS is able to price political risk, predict it with confidence, and see past and future patterns among both countries and risk metrics. Our risk portfolios have returned over 20%, beating the market with less volatility and less risk! No other firm has such accomplishments. Our clients know it.

From the world’s leading institutional investors – with trillions in assets under management – to central banks, multilateral organizations, transnational firms, and leading academics, PRS’ clients know how to challenge risk and make it work for them.

What Our Clients Are Saying About Us

IMF Executive Board

The benefit of using ICRG risks scores is that they are based on a consistent methodology to combine political, social and economic information with expert judgment from their analysts.
Review of the Flexible Credit Line, the Precautionary and Liquidity Line, and the Rapid Financing Instrument; IMF Policy Paper; Jan 27, 2014.

Gene Epstein

Devalued currencies, coups, failed economic plans and other financial and political shocks are difficult to predict and can have disastrous consequences for portfolios invested abroad. But there’s good news, at least for equity investors…International Country Risk Guide…provides information that has great predictive value with respect to future equity returns around the world.
“Risk Measures Prove To Be Excellent Forecasters Of the Rise and Fall of Markets Abroad,” Barron’s, March 11, 1996.

Luther (Trey) Denton, PhD

Access to historical data, combined with fact-based short and long-term predictions of regime type and stability, gives students the ability to examine risk by looking both back and forward. This data is a treasure for the student as well as the seasoned practitioner.
Professor of Marketing, Recipient of the Georgia Southern Award for Excellence in Teaching

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Researchers' Dataset: 2020 Updates Now Available

Table 2B, 3B, 4B, and 5B updates are available for purchase!

The PRS Group - the world's leading quant-driven political risk rating and forecasting firm - have updated our Researchers’ Dataset (RDS) with 2019 annual data. As a client you know how important it is to keep your datasets current, especially with the myriad geopolitical events that have occurred over the past year! These low-cost updates make it easy to maintain the integrity of your political risk data.

Please contact PRS' Director of Business Development Louis Carroll so we can process your order today! lcarroll@prsgroup.com or call 315.431.0511 (ext. 311)

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