Emerging market investments have become a standard practice among investors seeking yield and long-term growth. The bigger rewards, however, come with new risks. Recent developments in a number of countries highlight the continuing importance of political risk in markets where institutions and regulations remain weak.

Under the circumstances, properly understanding the political and business climate of each new market is an essential part of ensuring long-term success.

Control Risks has developed a new service PRIME, designed to help clients assess the political and business climate of new markets. PRIME is a bespoke service designed for investors and businesses, which harnesses the exceptional resources of Control Risks as a long-standing observer and analyst of political, business and security environments around the world.

The focus of our analysis is to identify and present the significance of important developments in a concise and clear manner. PRIME draws attention to important issues not typically covered by other, more directly event-driven political risk products. In particular, we seek to analyse the implications of structural issues whose impact is often too gradual to command significant media attention, even if their cumulative impact may be profound.

PRIME provides Control Risks’ projections for a specific issue together with an explanation of the reasoning behind them. While appreciating the complexity and uncertainty of many political issues, our analysis builds on an integral assessment of the probabilities of key drivers which allows us to rank different outcomes in terms of their likelihoods. Where appropriate, the analysis is presented in explicitly quantitative terms.

PRIME is based on a recognition of the time-sensitive nature of many of the decisions that our clients are facing. Some developments call for an immediate response while others are much more slow-moving. Control Risks offers PRIME clients unmatched timeliness, made possible by our unparalleled resources on the ground in complex and high-risk emerging markets around the world.

The delivery of PRIME analysis can be via a telephone call, a short email message or a longer note accompanied by a summary. Individual clients are served on a bespoke basis based on their remit of interests and preferred delivery methods. The analysis is backed up by direct access to our team of analysts.

If you would like to set up a trial of our PRIME service, please contact prime@control-risks.com