# Moody's Corporation

Moody's Corporation is an Asset Manager based in Boston, United States.

## Overview

- **Organization type:** Asset Manager
- **Headquarters:** Boston, United States
- **Region:** North America
- **Address:** New York, NY, United States
- **Founded:** 1909
- **Assets under management:** Undisclosed
- **Website:** moodys.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/moodys-corporation

## About

Moody's Corporation is an SEC-registered investment adviser in Boston, MA, registered since 2016. It manages approximately $2.4 billion in regulatory assets. The firm has 14 employees and 8 investment advisers.

## Sectors

- Financial Services
- Enterprise Software
- Data & Analytics

## Offices

- London, United Kingdom
- Tokyo, Japan
- Hong Kong, China
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- San Francisco, California, United States

## People

- Rob Fauber — President and Chief Executive Officer
- Michael West — President, Moody's Investors Service
- Stephen Tulenko — President, Moody's Analytics

## Questions

### Does Moody's actually manage investment portfolios or allocate capital?

No. Moody's does not manage any third-party assets or operate as a family office, hedge fund, venture firm or allocator. It is a publicly traded financial services and data company that provides credit ratings, risk analytics and compliance tools to institutions that do manage capital. Its role in an allocator's workflow is as a vendor, not a peer or co-investor.

### What percentage of Moody's revenue now comes from subscription-based analytics versus traditional bond ratings?

Moody's Analytics generates roughly two-thirds of the firm's total revenue, with the remainder coming from Moody's Investors Service, the regulated credit rating agency. The Analytics segment includes research subscriptions, economic forecasting software, KYC and anti-money-laundering tools, and climate-risk modeling acquired through the purchase of RMS. This structure creates a recurring revenue base less sensitive to bond issuance cycles than pure ratings businesses.

### How does Moody's climate-risk modeling function, and who uses it?

Moody's purchased catastrophe-risk modeler RMS in 2021 to integrate physical and transition climate risk into its existing credit-assessment platforms. Banks, insurers, asset managers and family offices with large real asset exposures use RMS data to project portfolio-level losses from floods, wildfires, hurricanes and regulatory carbon pricing. Moody's also issues climate-adjusted credit scores that some allocators use to screen bond holdings for transition exposure.

### Who actually leads investment decisions at Moody's Corporation?

Moody's does not have an investment committee in the allocator sense. Its CEO Rob Fauber, CFO Andrew Shore and division presidents allocate corporate capital through acquisitions and internal venture investments, but the firm does not manage a portfolio of marketable securities for external clients. The closest parallel is Moody's Lab, an internal unit that incubates early-stage analytics and technology products, though it functions as a corporate venture builder rather than a financial investor.

### What is the structural difference between Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Analytics?

Moody's Investors Service is a federally regulated Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization that opines on creditworthiness for bonds, structured products and sovereigns. Moody's Analytics is an unregulated technology and data business that sells subscription software, economic forecasts and compliance tools. The two operate beside each other under the same corporate parent, a structure that creates an unusual bundled relationship — ratings franchise relationships create analytics cross-selling opportunities, while analytics data feeds rating committees.

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