Rational investors will always prefer the lowest risk approach to achieving any particular expected return.
Obviously, an unblinded trial design (also known as an open-label trial) represents a particularly high-risk approach when the outcome involves a subjective assessment by either the patient or the physician.
When he bought Salomon and merged it with Smith Barney, an investment bank already owned by Travelers, Mr Weill declared himself comfortable with his new acquisition's famously high-risk approach to trading.
Dave emphasizes a flexible management style (known commonly as an Absolute Return strategy) and focuses on a risk managed approach to the markets.
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Partridge counters by arguing that his risk parity approach is the best way to survive a coming era of lower economic growth and more frequent recessions.
Many more stocks now have good looking charts but a patient, disciplined, and risk-adverse approach is still the best plan.
"In cases like this, clearly it should be fast-tracked and what they need to do is take a more risk-based approach, " he said.
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The TSA's moves toward a risk-based approach to security have the support of Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Smart insurers are increasingly aware of the way in which life, property, business interruption and other risks interact a portfolio risk-management approach encouraged by both regulators and investors.
Instead, resources are being focused on the testing of mid-level or companywide controls, putting the emphasis back into longer-term and big-picture issues by utilizing a more efficient, risk-based approach.
Part of it is because CIOs have assumed a more political role in organisations, and they look at things much more from a financial perspective, so they adopt a risk-averse approach.
Insurers have a list of other things banks can learn too, including the idea that getting a customer to retain a part of a risk reduces moral hazard something investment banks' pass-the-risk-parcel approach to securitisation blithely ignored.
Concerns included a mixed approach to risk assessment and problems providing appropriate adults for vulnerable detainees.
They conclude that their inconsistent approach to risk assessment and asset valuation was consistent with industry standards.
Unlike some programs of its ilk, there was some level of political risk involved with the approach.
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Finally, the emergence of cloud exchanges for spot trading could lead to a speculative futures market, bringing a whole new approach to risk management.
The researchers said people varied in their views about the impact of different levels of illness or disability, and in their approach to risk.
Our approach shares risk with the private sector, efficiently leverages taxpayer dollars, and deploys private-sector competition to determine market prices for currently illiquid assets.
American regulators have recently been taking more of a cost-benefit approach to risk, whereas Europeans are putting more emphasis on precautions, whatever the cost.
"This is part of an overall risk-based security approach, which allows Transportation Security officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher-threat items such as explosives, " a TSA spokesman told the Reuters news agency.
The European Union's transport commissioner, Siim Kallas, promised greater co-ordination between the 38 member states of Eurocontrol, the body supposed to integrate air navigation services across Europe, and a more dynamic approach to risk assessment.
The water industry has traditionally been conservative because its No. 1 goal is to avoid sickening people, so it can be difficult for a company to convince a municipality to risk testing a new approach.
This straightforward approach is risk-based, in that the organisms required to undergo case-by-case governmental review are an enhanced-risk group organisms that can injure or damage plants compared to plants not considered to be plant pests.
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He has the simple (and enviable) goal, and has since he started, of a 10% return after taxes and inflation, emphasizing there will be weaker years and stronger years, but consistency in approach and risk management is the key (while not saying it outright, he hinted that those who shoot for much higher average returns are likely taking on too much risk).
They are best captured in a comprehensive approach for incorporating risk and capital in critical decisions.
Responsible development of nanotechnology requires an integrated, risk-management-based approach to environmental, health, and safety (EHS) research.
That approach would minimize risk to American troops and maximize the likelihood of killing the residents of the compound.
But this approach runs the risk of the share price declining in the first days or weeks of trading.
The fund is going to have to take on more risk or take a different approach to investing that money.
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Pistole said the move brings the United States into alignment with international rules and are keeping with his "risk-based security" approach.
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