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Swedish National Pension Fund Bank of Canada Central Bank of Ecuador Central Bank of Paraguay Banco de España Bank of Greece Banca d\'Italia BIS Central Bank of Nigeria Central Bank of Peru CESCE CPIB Deutsche Bundesbank EADS European Central Bank FCIB Federal Reserve Bank Fifth Third Bank JBIC Kamakura Corporation KSURE Arab Investment & Export Credit Guarantee Corp. NACM Piraeus Bank QS Investors Saudi Fund for Development China Export & Credit Insurance Corp. Transparency International Central Bank of Turkey US Department of the Treasury World Bank Group WTO
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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

2021 Publication Schedule

PRS/ICRG maintains a regular publication calendar for its country forecasts, data, and analyses. LEARN MORE

Quid Periculum?

Long-time political risk experts Christopher McKee and Peter Marber present proven and pragmatic approaches to understanding our brave new world. 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

RL Diamonte, et al.

Because we sought to quantify the importance of political risk in stock returns, we used ICRG’s political component as our proxy for political risk.
“Political Risk in Emerging and Developed Markets.” Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 1996: 71.

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.

Reid W Click

I've found PRS's International Country Risk Guide data to be a rich and reliable source of information for my research. The panel is comprehensive, spanning more time and covering more countries than any other data set on country risk analysis. ICRG's political risk indicators are especially valuable, as they are recognized as the most authoritative data available.
Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs

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    NEW RELEASE: RDS 3Ba - Political Risk by Subcomponent
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    Tremendous client demand over the past year has encouraged us to release PRS’ 5th in the Researchers’ Datasets (RDS) series: Political Risk by Subcomponent ( 3Ba).

    This dataset offers annual averages (since 2001) of the 15-political risk subcomponents of 140 countries from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). The most granular approach to overall risk geopolitical assessment delivers a thoroughly vetted, quant-based look at the building blocks of government stability, the bases for a country’s socioeconomic health; the key risks facing business and investment, from contract repudiation to transfer and payment delays; to the increasingly important role that local and international politics plays in relation to forms of internal dissent (strike activity, terrorism, civil war) and to global relations (cross border conflict, sanctions).

    With a more nuanced look at those metrics used most often in the scholarly literature to assess geopolitical risk, RDS 3Ba provides unmatched insights at a tremendous value.

    To order your copy today please click to purchase or contact Louis Carroll lcarroll@prsgroup.com. Free samples are also available here.