Rating the future: the investors’ perspective

Regulators have had their say; the agencies themselves have implemented changes to methodologies and processes; but how would investors fix the credit ratings business?

Credit asked investors at some of the largest fixed income asset managers in the world their thoughts on the future of the rating agencies. Almost four years on from the start of the financial crisis, it is clear the agencies’ efforts to repair their reputations is still a work in progress.

Luke Spájic, head of European credit portfolio management at Pimco

“Rating agencies are meant to assess default risk and talk about impairment of asset quality – the risk to cashflows on any credit. The good

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Credit risk & modelling – Special report 2021

This Risk special report provides an insight on the challenges facing banks in measuring and mitigating credit risk in the current environment, and the strategies they are deploying to adapt to a more stringent regulatory approach.

The wild world of credit models

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a kind of schizophrenia in loan-loss models. When the pandemic hit, banks overprovisioned for credit losses on the assumption that the economy would head south. But when government stimulus packages put wads of cash in…

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