The PRS Group

Our Clients

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 nearly 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

The Political Risk Investor

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

Free Samples

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

For 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%. 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

Rollin Tusalem, PhD

Your organization provides the only reliable, consistent, and valid measure of property rights protection… many researchers will be able to utilize it in order to understand the complex role of property rights protection in affecting changes in the polity. Thank you for the excellent work and service you provide for researchers.

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arkansas State University

William B Eimicke

For many years, as a senior official at the city, state and federal levels, as an advisor to governments around the world and as a professor, I find PRS the best source of political risk assessment information for those of us without the highest levels of security clearance. PRS uses quantitative and qualitative tools and is constantly updating their information and analysis.

Founding Director of University of Colombia’s Picker Center for Executive Education, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs

L Cubeddu, et al.

The selection of the ICRG as the institutional proxy reflected both its wider cross-country and time-series coverage as well as its broader range of relevant institutional indicators.

"The External Balance Assessment Methodology: 2018 Update," IMF Working Paper (19/65), Mar 2019.

Challenging Borders, Challenging Risk.

The world's most influential quant-driven political risk rating and forecasting firm for 40 years, PRS has made global investment and political risk more predictable and profitable.