"The fact is there are all these people who are attracted to poker but have stayed away from it because they didn't want to risk money, " says Peter Alson, president of IFP's U.S. affiliate.
The drawbacks related to the funds of funds of funds approach recommended to pensions by their investment consultants today are enormous and can be summarized as follows: a pension may end up having hundreds of millions of dollars or approximately 20% of its assets invested with over 150 largely unregulated high-risk money managers scattered throughout the world whose identities, securities holdings, trading costs and custodians are unknown.
The key is competition among private entities with private money at risk not the government fixing prices with only taxpayer money at risk.
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But, as in Japan, there is then a risk that money is channelled into politically favoured projects with low returns.
You know, the capital gains and dividends which are the things that encourage people to risk their money by investing?
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More specifically, the league will not risk the money it stands to lose by admitting that football is an inherently violent and vicious game.
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Rather than hang around and risk losing money on their positions, often financed in part with borrowed money, the shorts may have decided to cut their losses and run.
Second, a resolution of fiscal issues in the U.S. and Europe will give investors confidence to assume more risk pushing money back into the equity markets and out of Treasuries.
In recent years criticism of banking secrecy has centred on the risk of money laundering, the practice of disguising funds from illegal sources by passing them through secret accounts until their origins can no longer be traced.
That lengthens your time horizon for that account, and that might allow you to accept more risk on that money.
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Why, for instance, do leaders who are already raking in huge sums of money risk everything to rake in more?
Diversification and regular rebalancing may decrease the impact of market volatility, but the risk of losing money will still exist.
The couple buys a policy that covers the risk by providing money sufficient to replace the income of the dead spouse.
Why should the bank take a risk with its money that the entrepreneur is either unwilling or unable to take him or herself?
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"That led us to believe that some of the more risk-averse money had already bolted the shares, " Fine said in a research note today.
The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has provided enough systemic risk to keep money out of higher beta emerging market equities and in bonds or cash.
True, stocks are a volatile asset class, but the risk of losing money diminishes the longer the holding period at least based on eight decades of market history.
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Placing a limit on the size of transactions and the total balance that can be stored reduces the risk of mobile money being used to launder cash.
And the great majority of investment advisers claim they base decisions on this theory, which falls short when it comes to accounting for the risk of borrowed money.
In theory, this helps the banks to reduce risk, makes money for intermediaries who trade the securities, and allows the investors to pick tranches of debt that match their risk appetite.
If you don't want to take any risk with your money then you need to look for the best possible interest rate that will let you have access to your money when you need it.
With mortgage rates still historically very low and the market stabilizing, you might want to go shopping now for your dream home while prices offer excellent value and the risk of losing money is far less than several years ago.
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Since Mr Bush took office, the number of days when Texan cities have exceeded federal ozone standards has doubled, and Houston and Dallas currently face federal deadlines to make sharp cuts in air pollution or risk losing federal money for their roads.
But dismissing the case, Judge Andrew Keyser QC the company had been the third and final link in a contractual chain and it would be wrong to make the householders bear the risk of the money paid by Zurich "disappearing in Rok's hands".
And since there is no capital at risk for the GP if a fund loses money, the risk of default on the debt is borne solely by the LPs.
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Part of an easy money, low interest rate monetary policy is to get corporate investors to take on risk and invest their money in production.
He felt that my advice to him was based on too much optimism about the future and was putting him at risk - even though I had been right and he had made money at a risk level that was very low.
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