And they'd rather keep it safe even at one-one-hundredth of a percent interest in a cash account than risk losing it all on a roulette-wheel stock market.
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Mr Bodaken believes that health insurers should have to accept all-comers in a system with effective risk-equalisation.
Despite all of these differences, hiring Clinton may be a masterstroke of genius that has all the markings of a high-risk, high-reward move with which this political tycoon Obama has grown comfortable.
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However German centre-right MEP Werner Langen pointed out that all countries feared to be at risk of a debt crisis - namely Greece, Portugal and Spain - had socialist governments.
These creative and analytical business types are ruled by a different mind-set, known to often risk it all for a good idea.
For all its talk of celebrating entrepreneurial capitalism and risk-taking, Wall Street currently has all the animal spirit of a savings bonds buyer.
The process stops at the point where all assets, on a maturity- and risk-adjusted basis, are priced to achieve probable returns near zero.
His decision came after he ended up in third position in Florida, the state on which he had pinned all his hopes, in a high-risk and very expensive strategy.
After all, even when a large company encourages risk-taking, there are limits to how much money a bet on innovation can lose before the person responsible for it pays a career price.
Buy-side firms that did run risk management might have used Riskmetrics or Algorithmics, , while others used Excel, a flexible all-purpose tool not designed for specific tasks like risk management.
Indeed, it's worth repeating that there's a risk of using the 2009-10 figures as a guide to anything at all other than the precipice over which the UK's finances hurtled that year.
After a few necessary detours, I ended up coaching debate to at-risk black and Hispanic students at the Eagle Academy for Young Men, a pioneering all-boys secondary school in the heart of the South Bronx, a few blocks from Yankee Stadium.
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That would risk lowering the value of all executives--not a very popular proposition if that includes yourself.
Finally, and most important, recent studies have shown convincing evidence that cardio-respiratory fitness is a much stronger predictor of longevity and reduced risk of cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality than BMI.
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Even maintaining just one of the routines--all of which, on their own, have been linked to a lower risk of childhood obesity in previous studies--lowered the odds that a child would be obese by about 25 percent, the study found.
Ms Benitez said the legislators - a congressman and a senator - had been kept informed at all times and had not been at risk.
There is a risk that in the event of a run on them (and private-equity folk all agree that there is now a hedge-fund bubble), hedge funds might have to sell fairly illiquid private-equity investments fast.
There is a risk that a one-stop shop for all marketing needs can kill creativity.
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The good news from the study is that while resilience is the key factor to overcoming great obstacles that are all-too-often part and parcel of daily life for the disadvantaged and at-risk population, it is a skill set that can be learned.
All bets--whether on red or black, or on a specific number--are equivalent on a risk-adjusted basis.
And the Office of the Children's Commissioner believes that gang and group-related sexual exploitation is a risk in all parts of the country.
Age-based models assume all young investors have a high risk tolerance and can emotionally handle bear markets.
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Mr Green, who was summoned to the Commons on 15 November 2011 to answer Labour's urgent question on the relaxation of UK border controls, insisted that all checks had been "strengthened" for high-risk private flights under a new strategy.
After all, their own money is not at risk--it's a fee. (By contrast, when they invest their own money in the funds, the profit is obviously a capital gain.) Let's be honest: It is a charade that private equity firms have claimed their 20% performance fees at the lower capital gains rate.
"We cannot risk being straitjacketed into a one-size-fits-all approach, " he warned.
The Russian version of Wikipedia, search engine Yandex and social network Vkontakte all protested against its creation warning that it posed a risk of "extra-judicial censorship".
For all parties involved, the Lin-to-Rockets move was a prudent risk-averse business decision.
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But now all of the stomach-sparing Cox-2 inhibitors may pose a heart risk.
An effective warning system for such a natural disaster would quickly alert all residents in at-risk areas to move to higher ground.
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