Like most commentators (including central bankers), they thought that the economic outlook was stable and that the financial system was doing a good job of spreading risk.
One of the two funds that Fernwood will launch this spring will reflect the skills of classic collectors, spreading risk by buying art over eight asset categories and permitting investors to come and go at fixed intervals.
Not only were asset prices rising even faster than debt but the use of derivatives was spreading risk across the system and, in particular, away from the banks, which had capital ratios well above the regulatory minimum.
There is a growing worry, in Britain as elsewhere, that instead of spreading risk thinly around the financial system as they were meant to, innovations such as securitised loans and derivatives have in fact created a form of congestion.
The entire premise centers around the estimation of risk to an individual and spreading that risk amongst a larger pool.
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And it can make products for several customers at the same park, thus spreading out risk and overhead.
"This is another example of Tesco diversifying and spreading the risk, " says Piner.
The ease of spreading financial risk allowed them to suspend their disbelief.
So they are likely to expand across borders faster than within them, also spreading the risk that one country tightens regulations or becomes politically unstable.
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"You know they're good for the money, " he says, pointing out that he is spreading his risk among 85 district offices of the USPS rather than a central, national buyer.
As a consequence of the problems in Thailand, WD is moving new slider production to its plants in Malaysia thus spreading the risk a bit further since hopefully there will not be issues in Malaysia at the same time as in Thailand.
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To be fair, none of the central banks realized that even the saving grace of spreading the risk of new products and innovations (like credit default swaps) would not of themselves prevent those who had been too optimistic from suddenly turning pessimistic.
Therefore, I would think about spreading the risk that is, selling a call likely to be out of the money against this as to offset my total cost and allow me to have some upside if the stock moves up in the meantime.
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He really laid out the problem quite well, at least, the problem of the last two or three years, that there was a speculative bubble in the price of housing, that the financial institutions, the banks and investment banks and all these insurance companies and pension funds and everyone else exacerbated that problem by spreading that risk all throughout the economy.
Presbyterian Church is urges parishioners to be responsible and take care not to risk spreading the virus.
And if you are spreading your investment risk with gold, why not also spread your geographical risk by owning some gold overseas as well?
He is also outspoken against patriarchy and has criticized polygamy as a practice that increases the risk of spreading HIV.
The team has chosen this plant as it is easy to experiment with and carries minimal risk for spreading into the wild.
He added that the risk of spreading the disease was "very low".
We should be spreading and thus diminishing risk as we do these things and dispersing risk is usually thought of as a good thing.
The present studio structure is designed to reduce the risk by spreading the bets--very similar to the way business is done in the valley.
The firm will move its 40 U.S.-based workers to a self-insured plan in June, in part to avoid the health law's risk-spreading provisions that could raise its costs, said CEO Randy Keith.
Today the Party elite is relatively united at least on policy issues, and the main intra-Party conflict is between the center and the regions, as local officials seek to cover up their misdeeds at the risk of spreading instability.
Dr John Morgan, head of the Forestry Commission's plant health service, said the work would help shed light on "the history and nature of the introduction of new pests like Chalara, and in helping to understand how we tackle the disease that's arrived and to understand what the risk of spreading is".
The risk of cancer spreading in those already diagnosed was cut by at least a half.
The group also wants to diversify its risk profile by spreading its investments.
It will also risk the disease spreading beyond Pakistan's borders to India, which has been polio-free for more than a year.
The second study looked at the effect of aspirin on cancer metastases and found that aspirin appeared to reduce the risk of cancer spreading by 36 percent over 6.5 years.
All that can be said for sure about Asia's troubles is that they are serious, and that the risk of them spreading to the rest of the world is also serious.
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