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Country Insights helps policymakers and investors

create value from changing country dynamics

  

Who we are

We are a research and consulting company that specialises in country risk and growth analysis using sophisticated analytical models covering 174 countries.

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Our Clients Include:

Asset managers
Hedge funds
Private equity firms
Sovereign wealth funds
Investment banks
Policymakers
Opinion formers
Public relations firms
Global corporates
Commercial banks
Strategy consulting firms
Development banks

What we do

We help our clients lower risk, increase return, make better decisions and formulate better policy by understanding in detail the fundamental drivers of country economic risk and performance in a rigorous, comparative context.

At the core of our approach is a belief in eradicating human bias without relying on opaque statistical blackboxes. We do this with our unique, proprietary, quantitative analytical tool, Quantitative Country Analytics (QCA).

We support our clients with:

 

Our analytics work...

 
New! Country Insights releases first quarter Country Strength Index, Mar 2012 

 

 

Latest news and research

New! Country Insights releases 1st quarter 2012 country risk ranking. Asian emerging markets continue to lead the world, while advanced economies continue to struggle from sluggish growth and huge debt burdens, with little evidence of deleveraging. Press release and Country rankings

 

New! Country Insights team completed a project on Natural Resource Wealth Management in Peru in the context of fiscal decentralisation. Read more

 

New! Country Insights correctly identified risk of expropriation in Argentina prior to YPF nationalisation Read more 

 

Will Marshall of Country Insights speaks at Battle of the Quants, a panel discussion in NYC on quantitative investment, about protecting your capital from systemic risksRead more

 

Country Insights produces investment index report (Jan 2012 edition) on emerging market equity, emerging market local debt and eurozone government debt. Read more

 

Country Insights releases fourth-quarter Country Strength Index: Asian emerging markets continue to lead the world as China, India, the US and Europe all struggle with their debt burdens Press release

 

Country Insights releases an analytical note on measuring vulnerability to a banking sector crisis using QCA. Read more

 

Country Insights publishes a report on risks and opportunities of China and India on Bloomberg MART. Read more

 

Country Insights releases a report showing what the data says about the dispute about whether the UK or France is the weaker economy. Read more

 

Country Insights releases QCA dashboard indicators that highlight risks and opportunites for the year 2012 among the 21 MSCI emerging market economies. Read more

 

Country Insights has tested QCA against the CDS market and found that QCA exhibited strong predicting power in emerging market and European CDS. Read more 

 

Country Insights has analysed 35 countries with credit rating changes and found that over 80% of rating changes are tracked and/or predicted by QCARead more 

 

Country Insights releases third-quarter Country Strength Index: Asian emerging markets lead the world, Eurozone countries near the bottom Press Release

 

Country Insights publishes a report on the short-term impact of EFSF 3.0 on France. It is available on Searching Finance and Bloomberg Bmart.

 

Country Insights publishes a free report about QCA-driven EM equity country selection strategy on Bloomberg BMART. The strategy has consistently outperformed the benchmark of MSCI EM equity index.

 

Country Insights publishes Eastern Europe research on Bloomberg BMART and Searching Finance.

Country Insights' QCA country briefings available through Bloomberg BMART.

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