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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 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

G Bekaert, C Harvey, C Lundblad, S Siegel

We can also use the [ICRG] political risk spread to come up with an adjusted equity discount rate that reflects political risk, without double counting other risks…Political risk spreads [as measured using ICRG] are often substantially smaller than full sovereign spreads, implying that the standard approaches substantially overstate discount rates used in international project evaluation, potentially leading to significant under investment.
“Political Risk and International Valuation,” National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015.

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)

G Bekaert, C Harvey, C Lundblad, S Siegel

…the ICRG ratings of emerging market countries with eventual risk realizations are substantially lower (higher risk) than average before the event…Furthermore, the ICRG ratings (adjusted for average risk) are deteriorating before the political risk event is realized. In addition, the decrease in ratings is robust to the look-back period.
"Political risk spreads," Journal of International Business Studies, 2014.

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