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Smith's Research & Gradings is a financial credit grading company that conducts award-winning research and creates unique credit reports using its own proprietary grading system. Smith’s Research & Gradings provides research and disseminates credit gradings on securities sold both on a new issue basis as well as in the secondary markets. Smith’s Research & Gradings mission is to provide decision-makers with real-time intelligence for greater accuracy and predictability. Smith’s Research & Gradings stated raison d’être is to provide independent, principles-based credit analytics.
Over the past 28 years, Smith’s Research & Gradings has constantly improved and enhanced its credit analytics to better serve investors.
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Smith’s Grading scale provides a comprehensive and unified credit comparison that is consistently applied for all securities — from supranational organizations and sovereign risk gradings to sub-sovereign municipal entities as well as corporate credit analytics. It’s a principled and proven approach to credit analysis expressed on Smith’s universal scale.
Smith's Research & Gradings has the news and information you need to know as you continue your search for value in the municipal markets. Smith's is the premier source of independent credit evaluation within the municipal credit market. Smith's is published every other week
