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Financial Times Article Rating

The former rugby lawyer shaking up the world of private credit

Apr 07, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    30% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -30% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But it was his early career as a lawyer in Australian rugby league that provided the blueprint for the Barings raid, which has given Weightman a whole team of private credit experts for his nascent investment business Corinthia Global Management.
58% : In one instance, Weightman's pitch to a senior Barings employee who later defected is preserved in full, offering them an "interesting private credit opportunity at Corinthia Global Management" and to send a non-disclosure agreement to a "private email address".
48% : This imposed strict limitations on Corinthia in everything from soliciting Barings' clients, to hiring Barings' employees and making use of Barings' confidential information.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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