Spokesman Darren Dopp noted that the dropped charges were wholly unrelated to, and less serious than, the core charge of fraud that it had filed against Greenberg and Smith, mainly on the basis of risk transfer transactions with General Reinsurance , or GenRe, that allegedly misstated AIG's financial health to its shareholders.
Each must decide on an individual basis how much risk he or she is comfortable taking on.
As a result, the data cannot be construed on a per-capita basis without the risk of substantial inaccuracies.
Unfortunately, our extensive knowledge about risk factors affords little basis for women to reduce their risk, since most of these factors (family history, reproductive factors, etc.) are not modifiable.
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His report says there is "no appetite or good reason to change the basic approach underlying British military campaign medals policy", which is that they "should be awarded sparingly, on the basis of genuine risk and rigour".
Audit Integrity's AGR scores also form the basis of Forbes' Risk List.
This method outperforms active fund selection by over one percent per year, and a disciplined rebalancing strategy generates returns that have outperformed the markets nominally and on a risk adjusted basis.
Since the new Europe-wide rule to strengthen banks is that they must - by the middle of 2012 - have a minimum of 9% capital on a Basel 2.5 basis relative to their risk-weighted assets, after allowing for the fall in the price of their holdings of the debts of over-indebted eurozone countries, by definition it is the banks in those over-indebted eurozone countries that emerge as weakest.
Investors would have done better on a risk-adjusted basis putting money into "core" properties, she adds.
All bets--whether on red or black, or on a specific number--are equivalent on a risk-adjusted basis.
The success or failure of active strategy is always measured on a net-of-cost, risk-adjusted basis against its benchmark.
It is ahead of the Wilshire 5000 on a risk-adjusted basis as well.
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Low-beta stocks have performed better, on a risk-adjusted basis, than their high-beta counterparts.
The agency characterized the transaction as being done on an "open bank basis, " with no risk to the deposit insurance fund.
In other words, by choosing between two style options, you limit your ability to fine-tune your risk beyond 300 basis points annually.
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The process stops at the point where all assets, on a maturity- and risk-adjusted basis, are priced to achieve probable returns near zero.
Particularly on a risk-adjusted basis, returns have not been terribly attractive.
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Men were found to earn 1.4% less on an annual risk-adjusted basis than women, while women were less likely to participate at all in the stock market.
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And if you look at returns on a risk-adjusted basis, as some converts to the cause now urge, it may even be a more profitable one than before.
On that basis alone, the regulatory risk has risen enormously.
Another way for the trustee to benefit from the trust is to hire investment advisors to manage the trust assets, not based on how good they are on a risk-adjusted basis, but rather on how much new trust business those advisors send to the trustee.
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Such a risk assessment is the basis of buy-and-hold advice that urges investors with medium or long time horizons to load up on U.S. stocks.
On a risk-adjusted-return basis, things were little changed over the past 30 days.
Rather than adding to their risk architectures on a regular basis, some are withdrawing from certain activities and have consolidated to a degree.
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In fact, according to CreditSights, credit default swaps (CDS) which measure the risk of default actually tightened (showing the market sees reduced default risk) 15-50 basis points, or from 0.15-0.50%.
The price of gas must rise to a level where it is profitable and companies can make a return on their invested capital on a cash flow basis to be willing to assume the risk to exploit these resources.
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It takes a particular kind of person to risk his life on a daily basis, facing incredible dangers at almost every turn.
He added that applications will be considered "on a case by case basis and only where collection would pose a risk to the health and safety of the personnel carrying out the collection".
For Wall Street to hum, we need to see risk premiums come in more than 100 basis points.
We estimate that the high yield risk premium would then drop to 439 basis points, reflecting prevailing levels of defaults, economic indicators, and credit availability.
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