ICRG

Abstract

Acclaimed as the ‘most authoritative in the field,’ with ‘great predictive value,’ the International Country Risk Guide provides a global clientele with political, economic, and financial risk ratings and forecasts for its universe of 140 developed, emerging, and frontier markets. The globe’s leading investors and transnational firms rely on our data and analyses to extract the part of the sovereign credit spread that is due to political risk – even for countries with no issuance history. Traders and portfolio managers, with trillions in assets under management, use ICRG’s ratings and risk metrics to allocate country exposure as the data have been shown to be predictive of equity market returns. Transnational firms and others use ICRG for risk management given its predictive capacity for future risk events. ICRG is a proven early warning system. Moreover, ICRG is the only political risk methodology and data series to be accepted by the courts in commercial disputes involving the valuation of political risk. ICRG remains one of a dozen firms, worldwide, to supply Transparency International (TI) with corruption scores that help inform the organization’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index. Our data partnership with TI dates some 20 years.