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How Smith's Gradings Work For You
Smith's private Grading scale provides a comprehensive and unified credit comparison that is consistently applied for the assets we track — from supranational organizations and sovereign risk gradings to sub-sovereign municipal entities and corporate credit analytics. Smith’s Gradings reflect a loss and recovery experience that has produced criteria with very dramatic differences.
Smith's comprehensive credit scale for global fixed income markets, ensures that your business can access a reliable and accurate analysis, allowing for a clearer understanding of an asset's financial landscape. Investors seeking underlying credit quality can request Smith's Gradings reports. It's a principled and proven approach to credit analysis expressed on Smith's universal scale
Smith’s Gradings is a time-tested and performance-proven process. Smith’s Research & Gradings exceeds the standards of the world’s central banks and financial regulatory authorities. Smith’s Gradings has more than three decades of default and recovery experience. What's more, Smith's Gradings reflect assessments of absolute levels of default risk, rather than relative financial strength ratings.
Smith's Gradings enhance your understanding of the nature and durability of an asset's revenue stream. Smith's analytics have proven consistently on point in advance of the unfolding of events, opportunities and risks across sectors.
Smith's Gradings System
REPAYMENT GRADINGS
Think of Smith’s Gradings as providing a bridge to safety based on the absolute high water mark rather than, say, the median water level over the past three years.
RECOVERY GRADINGS
In the event of an interruption to payment, look to see if your investment might provide you with a cushion if it falls from grace.
EVENT RISK GRADINGS
Smith’s Event Risk Gradings monitor events ranging from slow-moving like droughts to rapidly unfolding incidents such as terrorist attacks.
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