Investment Management

A wide range of services where you can choose your level of involvement in managing your investments. You can make all the investment decisions yourself and simply give us your instructions, you can access our expert advice for your portfolio or entrust the decisions to your dedicated investment managers.

As an independent investment manager, not tied to any funds, products or large institutions, we offer you transparency and flexibility to ensure that your objectives are met efficiently and successfully.

Credit Ratings

Assessing the creditworthiness of relevant financial institutions

Credit ratings can be used to assess the creditworthiness of an institution, for example, a bank. Credit ratings are assigned by independent organisations known as credit rating agencies. The three leading rating agencies are Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings.

Credit rating agencies issue both short-term and long-term credit ratings and use their own scales to determine an institutions creditworthiness. These ratings can provide investors with an indication of an institution’s financial strength and ability to meet its commitments. For example, in the case of structured investments, the bank’s ability to repay the capital and any returns due to investors.

Credit ratings are the opinion of the credit rating agency and are not a guarantee of credit quality. Please see the following websites for information on each agency’s scales and how their opinions are reflected in each rating.

The credit rating of an institution is regularly reviewed by the credit rating agencies. It is therefore possible that the rating quoted in the brochure for a structured investment plan may have changed since publication. You can use this webpage to monitor credit ratings during the investment term of your plan. Please see below the current credit ratings of the banks which back Walker Crips Structured Investment plans.

Ratings are accurate as at 04 November 2024

Financial Institution Standard & Poor's Moody's Fitch
Rating Outlook Rating Outlook Rating Outlook
Barclays Bank PLC A+ Stable A1 Stable A+ Stable
BNP Paribas A+ Stable Aa3 Negative AA- Stable
Citigroup Global Markets Ltd A+ Stable A1 Stable A+ Stable
Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank A+ Stable Aa3 Negative AA- Stable
Goldman Sachs International A+ Stable A1 Stable A+ Stable
HSBC Bank PLC A+ Stable A1 Stable AA- Stable
Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC A+ Stable Aa3 Stable AA- Stable
Santander UK plc A Stable A1 Stable A+ Stable
Societe Generale SA A Stable A1 Negative A Stable