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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

Free Samples

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

Dr Michel-Henry Bouchet

I have been using risk ratings and economic data from International Country Risk Guide for roughly thirty years, for teaching Country Risk Management in Europe, in China, in Latin America, and in the US. In addition, ICRG provides me with a vital source of risk ratings and forecasts in managing and advising investment funds that focus on volatile countries, both emerging and developed, given that the former have lost the monopoly of country risk turbulence. ICRG risk scores that go back to the mid-1980s are also a key input in econometric research for cross-country correlation analysis. Overall, the combination of qualitative and quantitative risk data makes ICRG an indispensable ingredient in country risk assessment.
Distinguished Finance Professor, Skema Business School (Paris-Sophia Antipolis-Suzhou-Raleigh)

Dr Robert A Lawson

It's always a pleasure to work with PRS Group and its data. I deal with a lot of international data from a variety sources and customer service is often lacking. The PRS website works well and if you have a question or problem the staff are quick and cheerful about helping.
Jerome M. Fullinwider Endowed Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom and Director of the William J. O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom in the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University

Eatzaz Ahmad, et al.

One of the most striking features of the [ICRG] data is the strong relationship between bureaucratic efficiency and political stability.
“Does Corruption Affect Economic Growth?” Latin American Journal of Economics, Vol 49, No 2, 2012: 277–305.

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To assist in combating the COVID-19, PRS will donate 10% of all new sales to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the world’s largest medical humanitarian organization, with nearly 50,000 staff throughout some 70 countries. In addition to addressing the impacts of the virus, MSF also deals with medical issues arising from climate change, environmental degradation, and poverty.

The PRS Group and the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) have been through unsettled times before: from Black Friday in 1987, the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997, the dot-com burst, September 11th, the 2007-08 Financial Crisis and Great Recession, and now the Global Pandemic of 2020. We’ve weathered each of these crises as a firm, helping our clients through the various risk pitfalls, with the benefit of the longest and most comprehensive geopolitical and country risk data series in the world.

We want you to know that we’re doing our part to assist our clients and our communities during this time of crisis.

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