our story
A History of Character, A Legacy of Achievement
Labelled as ‘the most authoritative’ geopolitical risk data series in the industry, PRS’ position remains unrivaled.
Explore the PRS StoryTrusted for decades by the world’s leading universities and investment houses, and by the most geographically active multilateral organizations and transnational firms, PRS’ quant-driven risk data, ratings, and forecasts continue to provide countless opportunities for academic research and commercial application.
Our data has appeared in nearly 1,000 published studies and book chapters. The scholars and universities that use our risk series are global in stature, and their work has served to link the worlds of academic inquiry, business and investment growth, and government policy formation.
Our series have been shown to be predictive of risk incidents, linked to numerous political and economic phenomena, and correlated with the behavior of financial assets. Investment managers and corporate risk planners use our data to adopt a more disciplined approach to country exposure for portfolio and tactical decisions.
As the gold standard for assessing country default spreads and risk premiums, firms active in such sectors as resource extraction, manufacturing, and technology use our data to provide a measure of balance and analytical rigor to corporate planning, asset valuation, and insurance underwriting.
Our data drives.
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1979
Established
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150+
Countries Covered
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200+
Risk Metrics Used
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7M+
Data Points
