These and many similar studies focus our attention on specific risk factors or possible risk factors.
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We have a very specific risk assessment scheme that every police force has to follow.
The biggest of these is mitigating company-specific risk, while investing in a theme or idea that makes sense to you.
Nor is it tied to any specific risk in the JPMorgan portfolio.
Youth -- or a person's specific risk factors for disease -- may also affect their risk for developing heart disease and dementia.
In women with specific risk factors, a clinician should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of alternative therapies compared to those of traditional HRT.
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Even huge companies such as Microsoft represent less than 5% of the overall market, the weight at which investment consultants start worrying about stock-specific risk.
"However, from what is available it is clear that girls and young women are at specific risk during periods of economic uncertainty and stress, " the report stated.
But, as Greenblatt told CNBC last year, by buying a basket of them, you diversify away the stock-specific risk much like an insurance company does with its clients.
Women feel more comfortable than men taking social risks, such as moving to a new city or wearing unconventional clothes, according to studies using this new, domain-specific risk-taking scale.
As with any quantitative approach, you should be sure to invest in picks like these within the context of a broader, diversified basket of stocks in order to limit stock specific risk.
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Sounds good, but it lives or dies based on how good these folks are at measuring specific risk, and how well ZestCash manages its own costs of managing discerning loan officers who only work over the telephone.
So long as any investors are able to mix enough shares into a portfolio to diversify away specific company risk, they will bid up the price of those shares until they reflect only market risk.
Again, without a culture specific, consumption specific account of risk, the claim is meaningless, a product of the arbitrary weightings of the risk model.
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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.
Prof Paul Gately, a specialist in childhood obesity at Leeds Metropolitan University, said a tool like this would help the NHS target specific people at risk rather than the "scattergun one-size-fits-all approach, which we know does not work".
And the other big things such as global systemic risk and hegemon country risk (more on that later), and those non-company specific factors generally dwarf the risk due to company choice in a well diversified portfolio.
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Researchers also investigated how smoking influenced this relationship and how excess weight affected death risk from specific causes.
And three, the potential risk for providing specific, negative feedback is much higher than the potential reward.
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What they are giving you is generally going to be asset categories, unless they have the specific return-and-risk parameters for every security in the portfolio.
First, the AHA guidelines were designed based on knowledge of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and thus did not take into account certain risk factors for specific cancers.
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And earlier this year the evidence against many hours of sitting expanded further: The American Journal of Epidemiology published a study finding that those who work a sedentary job have almost twice the risk of a specific type of colon cancer.
There is no great risk in scrapping the specific rules relating to terrorist finance.
Insurance companies have a pretty good idea of the risk of insuring a specific individual and property.
There are better, more migraine-specific drugs available without the addictive risk of narcotics.
The report is vague about funding and needs to be more specific about who the 'high risk groups' are.
Detailed data is critical for identifying which populations are most at risk, and what specific interventions are most effective in attaining improved health care quality for specific populations.
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By looking backwards at the slides, and forward at the results and outcomes, they were able to identify 21 specific genes that correlate with the risk of recurrence, and whether a patient is likely to benefit from chemotherapy.
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Future premiums will reflect risk (tied both to specific location and expected climate change) so individuals are aware of the hazard they face.
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