If the financial world were to publish a Who’s Who list, Morningstar, Inc. would most definitely be on it. This research and analysis firm, which is based in the Windy City, provides tons of data about how certain stocks, mutual funds, and other financial instruments are performing. They also provide consulting and management services and products, publish a much-used investment risk rating system (called the Morningstar Sustainability Rating), and issue all kinds of newsletters and fun research papers.
As of 2018, their revenue was upwards of $1 billion and the company was managing over $200 billion in assets. Not bad for a company that was founded the same year that The Karate Kid (the original) hit theaters.
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finance a la shmoop what are the differences in S&P's, and Moody's
ratings? capital letters. really that's about it the assessment of the rating
itself is about the same. the people work at both companies all came from about [grinning men walk in front of a school]
the same schools the same semi diversified backgrounds and well they
all eat the same white bread. note the nomenclature differences here though.
Moody's does in fact look kind of moody with a big fat capital letter in the
beginning followed by small letters and slightly different notations. the S&P is
all in caps all shouting all the time. the metrics behind say a quote highly [chart shown]
speculative bond unquote down here are about the same for both companies but
the slight differences are worth noting so that when you see a rating well you
know just by the way in which it's written who wrote it.
now as for actually understanding bond ratings well that's a different story. to [document shown]
most people they might as well be hieroglyphics. [confused woman reads paper]
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