Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Credit Ratings Underlying Factors

In this 30-minute webinar, we will dive into the layers of credit ratings to better understand how the underlying scores and factors may provide an outlook of credit performance, with particular insights on Financial Risk and Business Risk scores. Following the publication of their study, “Financial and Business Risks: What Underlying Factors Tell Us About The Relative Strength Of Issuers With Similar Credit Ratings”, speakers Rick Kanungo and Giorgio Baldassarri will delve into the following questions.

• Why dive into credit ratings factors to inform the investment decision process?
• What are the factors underlying a corporate credit rating?
• What insight did SPGMI’s study of factors reveal?
• How would market participants incorporate the insight into their analysis?