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Learn how Moody's Ratings assigns opinions of the relative credit risk of financial obligations across industries and asset classes. See the global long-term and short-term rating scales, the rating process steps, and the video explanations.
- Private Monitored Private Placement Rating
This overview offers a high-level introduction to Moody’s...
- Investment Manager Quality Assessment
The MQ assessment incorporates Moody’s Ratings analysis of...
- Private Monitored Loan Rating
Private Monitored Loan Rating - Moody's Ratings /...
- Unpublished Monitored Loan Rating
Unpublished Monitored Loan Rating - Moody's Ratings /...
- Trustee Quality Assessment
Represents Moody’s Ratings assessment of a trustee’s...
- Money Market Fund Rating
This rating incorporates Moody's Ratings assessment of a...
- Bond Fund Rating
Rating primarily reflects Moody's Ratings assessment of the...
- Service Quality Assessment
Service Quality Assessment - Moody's Ratings / Understanding...
- Private Monitored Private Placement Rating
The rating scale, running from a high of Aaa to a low of C, comprises 21 notches. It is divided into two sections, investment grade and speculative grade. The lowest investment-grade rating is Baa3. The highest speculative-grade rating is Ba1.
In the spirit of promoting transparency and clarity, Moody’s Ratings (“Moody’s”) Standing Committee on Rating Symbols and Definitions offers this updated reference guide which defines Moody’s various ratings symbols, rating scales and other ratings-related definitions.
In Moody's Ratings system, securities are assigned a rating from Aaa to C, with Aaa being the highest quality and C the lowest quality. Moody's was founded by John Moody in 1909, to produce manuals of statistics related to stocks and bonds and bond ratings.
Moody’s rating scale, which ranges from a maximum Aaa to a minimum C, consists of 21 notches and two categories: Investment category for the financially sound companies. Speculative category for the companies with a higher risk of defaulting.
Moody’s differentiates structured finance ratings from fundamental ratings (i.e., ratings on nonfinancial corporate, financial institution, and public sector entities) on the global long-term scale by adding (sf) to all structured finance ratings.
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