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

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.

Campbell R. Harvey

I have used PRS’ International Country Risk Guide index on over a dozen scientific publications [and] found...a significant ability of the PRS political risk indicator to predict realized political risk events. These data also allow us to address questions of great interest to a finance audience. For example, the same paper asks the question: how much of a country’s sovereign bond yield is due to political risk?

Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr Wasseem Mina

Many thanks for your product update. PRS products have been valuable to me, in particular Table 3B of the Researchers Dataset. I have been a veteran user of it for more than 17 years now… I highly appreciate …and value your products.

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at United Arab Emirates University

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.