Moody's Credit Research Content Overview

An overview of the Moody's Credit Research content set within AlphaSense

• What is Moody's Credit Research?
• What does Moody's Credit Research Contain?
• Types of Moody's Credit Research
• How to Access Moody's Credit Research

What is Moody's Credit Research?

Moody's is one of the top Bond Credit Rating Agencies in the world, and provides international financial research, ratings, and risk analysis on bonds issued by commercial and government entities.

Moody's rates bonds on a scale from Aaa to C, with Aaa being the highest quality bond (subject to the lowest level of credit risk) and C being the lowest rated bond (typically in default with little prospect for recovery of principal or interest).

NOTE:  Moody's Credit Research is available only to clients who have an existing relationship with Moody's Credit Research.

What does Moody's Credit Research Contain?

Sections of Moody's Research include: Capital Markets, Investment Grade, Leveraged Finance, Insurance, Banking, Sovereigns, Public Finance, Structured Products.

Types of Moody's Credit Research

Capital Markets

• Provides data and research on credit and equity market signals of default risk and credit direction. Research focuses on the analysis of market signals on entities and sectors.

Investment Grade

• Details specific metrics on Corporate High Yield bonds.

Leveraged Finance

• Details a corporations credit worthiness in terms of loans they issue (rather than debt).

Insurance and Banking

• Coverage of Leveraged Finance, Debt, and Credit ratings within the insurance and banking industries, as well as topics around stress testing and regulation.

Sovereign

• Covers debt from individual Nations.

Public Finance

• Covers debt issued by government organizations.

Structured Products

• Covers Mortgage Backed Securities, Asset Backed Securities, Credit Default Swaps, Collateralized Loan Obligations, etc. 

How to Access Moody's Credit Research

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