A new academic study from Columbia Business School has raised concerns that a growing portion of the $1.8tn private credit market may be supported by credit ratings that materially understate underlying risk, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The research suggests that so-called private-letter ratings – widely used by insurers and other institutional investors but not publicly disclosed in the same way as traditional ratings – tend to assign higher grades than warranted when compared with publ...
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