The insurance giant AIG has lately become the poster child for corporate risk-taking, mismanagement and greed.
Morgan and the principal author of the recent report Watching Water: A Guide to Corporate Risk in a Thirsty World.
Four (forgot, there is one more), there is a corporate risk releasing your creative brief to the masses.
The repeated shocks to the world economy delivered over the past few years will bring in a culture of corporate risk aversion: the focus will be more on accountability than creativity.
And though insurers could try a lot harder to adapt to the changing demands of corporate risk-managers, the secular stagnation in the growth of their business will also be difficult to reverse.
Will it seriously influence the scorekeepers, let alone the corporate risk-takers, that Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appeared to be cementing its order in free elections even as Thailand writhed in what is (albeit roughly) a republican-monarchist tussle?
An analyst at Lehman Brothers tells Forbes Global that RBS has the largest exposure to corporate risk in the U.K. and that everyone is carefully watching for signs of deterioration in the bank's credit quality, now that the previously strong U.K. economy worsens under the weight of rising taxes and a manufacturing meltdown.
If treasury bills are without default risk (a big If in these times), and corporate bonds do have default risk, then corporate bonds are less valuable than treasuries to the degree that the default risk rises or falls.
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The announcement led to a 17-month low on Japanese corporate bond risk, and Japanese stocks rallied on the news.
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Had I started the job a year or two earlier, I might have found that covering things like how to be a manager, corporate strategy, risk management, governance, and corporate social responsibility was worthy but possibly sometimes a little dull.
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"We've got the Veg-o-matic of risk management, " says Robert Mark, the bank's head of corporate treasury and risk management.
Few companies would choose responsibility, would risk corporate martyrdom, over profit and survival in these circumstances.
Using a personal mobile device can make employees happier and more productive, but it can also put corporate data at risk.
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Quality of corporate governance including risk committee and audit committee effectiveness and quality of disclosures by management to those board committees.
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Commercial banks are continuing to shed corporate-credit risk using default swaps.
As default risk is the primary driver of high-yield corporate bond prices, as opposed to interest rate direction, when the economy expands, the risk of high-yield corporate bonds defaulting is reduced and this is reflected in lower volatility.
The AA corporate has little credit risk, and it, too, should return the full principal.
Do we want more elected officials to believe that to challenge corporate agendas is to risk their career?
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Instead, effectively managing IT risk requires corporate diligence above and beyond regulatory compliance.
Without the input of users, government and academics, as well as technology firms and their corporate clients, specifications risk being irrelevant.
We now prefer equities to corporate bonds as the risk on trade.
Easy credit could put corporate borrowers at greater risk of default, but even now, distressed debt investors are recouping far more than they have in previous years.
Although the investments resembled bonds, paying buyers a fixed interest rate for taking on the default risk of corporate debt, the products invested in synthetic collateralized debt obligations held by Lehman.
While the moves are legal and disclosed in regulatory filings, "there are certainly some fairly serious red flags in terms of behavior that are raised there, " said Paul Hodgson, chief research analyst for GMI Ratings, a corporate-governance and risk-management research firm.
With plenty of weak companies at risk, unforeseen corporate bankruptcies could upset the government's orderliness.
The program was aimed at spurring the economy by lowering longer-term interest rates of Japanese government bonds and reducing risk premiums on corporate bonds.
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.
And in the U.S., the extended and unresolved fiscal crisis and now the debt ceiling will impact global risk appetite for corporate and portfolio investors.
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The distinction between soliciting and demanding is especially vague when the IRS is the bad cop, with millions of dollars on corporate balance sheets potentially at risk.
It also asks if the government has assessed the risk of some corporate headquarters leaving Scotland, and how jobs would replace those linked to the nuclear deterrent.
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