DBRS Morningstar Assigns Rating of R-1 (low) to Brookfield Corporate Treasury Ltd.’s New USD 1.93 Billion Commercial Paper Program

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) assigned a rating of R-1 (low) with a Stable trend to Brookfield Corporate Treasury Ltd.’s new Commercial Paper Program (CP Program). The short-term promissory notes to be issued under the CP Program will be fully, irrevocably, and unconditionally guaranteed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (BAM), rated A (low) with a Stable trend by DBRS Morningstar. The CP Program will be fully backed up by BAM’s credit facilities.

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE CONSIDERATIONS
There were no Environmental/Social/Governance factor(s) that had a significant or relevant effect on the credit analysis.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar considers ESG factors within the DBRS Morningstar analytical framework can be found in the DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk Factors in Credit Ratings at https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/396929 (May 17, 2022).

Notes:
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

The principal methodologies are DBRS Morningstar Criteria: Commercial Paper Liquidity Support for Nonbank Issuers (March 1, 2022; https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/393065) and DBRS Morningstar Global Criteria: Guarantees and Other Forms of Support (April 4, 2022: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/394683), which can be found on dbrsmorningstar.com under Methodologies & Criteria.

A description of how DBRS Morningstar analyzes corporate finance transactions and how the methodologies are collectively applied can be found at: https://www.dbrsmorningstar.com/research/397223/interplay-of-global-corporate-finance-rating-methodologies-when-analyzing-corporate-finance-transactions.

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