Egan-Jones Rating Company
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Egan-Jones Rating Company, also known as EJR, was founded in 1995 and actively rates the credit worthiness of approximately 2000+ high yield and high grade U.S. corporate debt issuers. Egan-Jones is wholly supported by investors to minimize the potential for conflicts of interest in accessing credit quality. On Dec. 21, 2007 the SEC granted Egan-Jones NRSRO status, thus including them in a group of eight recognized NRSRO's.
The effectiveness of Egan-Jones' investor supported credit ratings has been measured by third parties including Richard Johnson of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, the Stanford University Business School and the University of Michigan's Business School (Studies
