These professionals use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to assess the risk that an event will occur and to help businesses and clients develop policies that minimize the cost of that risk, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
The basic story is you open the markets to wider participation and the cost of shifting risk goes down.
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So the central part of this is to make sure that in future financial crises, that banks bear the cost of any risk the government has to take to protect the economy.
No, argues David Moss, an economist at Harvard Business School, in a forthcoming book: the benefits of putting a ceiling on the potential losses faced by shareholders far outweighed the cost of a slightly higher risk of debt default.
Thus, ESO decided that the combination of cost and risk was too unfavorable and hence pursued a telescope in the 30 to 60 meter range.
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The Institutes will each have a well-defined technology focus to address industrially-relevant manufacturing challenges on a large scale and to provide the capabilities and facilities required to reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies.
Because of this transition to a broader, NATO-based coalition, the risk and cost of this operation -- to our military and to American taxpayers -- will be reduced significantly.
The success or failure of active strategy is always measured on a net-of-cost, risk-adjusted basis against its benchmark.
Opportunity cost is the risk of making decisions now that result in lower returns over the longer term than you would have gotten otherwise.
In recent weeks there has been a rise in both LIBOR (a gauge of banks' borrowing costs) and the credit-default-swap spreads on bank bonds (the cost of insuring against default risk).
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There is a cost to the risk of trying to time the markets, as anyone who has made the bet on shorter maturities or on other assets has witnessed over the last decade.
The cost of errors is a potential risk, but executives are usually not given any tangible or quantifiable evidence.
Many managers avoid the complexity and cost of trying to hedge currency risk.
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There has to be action to both uncover the frauds and make the cost of fakery too high to risk.
And the consequent decision-making flaws included inadequate contingency planning, insufficient information search and biased assessments of risk, cost-benefits and moral implications.
Fees, access to and the cost of services, as well as the appropriate management of risk all require evolving discussions among multiple parties.
The pilot institute will address a focused technology area to reduce the risk and cost of commercializing and scaling-up new manufacturing products and processes.
These consortia, which would have the clout to raise debt finance at low rates, would assume the risk of cost overruns and the responsibility for finishing projects on time.
The design of the tools reduces the number of parts to be sterilized, reducing risk of cross-contamination and cost.
On top of putting the entire financial system at risk, the hidden cost has been hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into the housing market instead of more productive assets.
Capital equals risk equals a cost of doing business and the more of it you can offload on the other guy, the more profitable you will be.
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The bubble will eventually burst anyway, but it would have been better to prick it sooner at the cost of a mild recession than to risk a deeper recession later.
So it is not surprising that if you shift dramatically, both in terms of risk and expected cost, obligations from the federal government onto individuals, you can reduce the projected cost.
If lawyers are able to spend 60 cents instead of a dollar on litigation expenses, they will naturally take chances on riskier suits because their risk-adjusted cost of doing business has gone down.
But Hormel is hedging some of that risk on top of efforts to pare down the cost structure.
That is, the interest rate on Argentinean short-term paper, or the price of the peso on the forward market, reflects the risk of a surprise devaluation that will cost you a chunk of your capital.
Basel III puts the very essence of that special relationship at risk, by enforcing higher capital ratios, higher cost of capital, and significantly increasing compliance costs for banks.
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Zippers offer security, at the cost of added effort to open and close them (not to mention the risk of snagged scarves).
The exchanges are supposed to help spread around the risk, and cost, of coverage.
Three things matter in the selection of a mutual fund: Cost, risk and performance.
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