The Buy Korea Renaissance Equity Unit Trust, which limits exposure to equities at 50% of its assets, gained 13.9%.
The nature of insurance means that companies can generally control their exposure to catastrophic risks: most property and casualty policies last only one year, and many firms have limits on exposure.
By doing so, the generic drugmaker limits its exposure to the end of the patent cliff.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission limits the exposure of U.S. nuclear workers to no more than 5 rem per year.
The firm says the low power-density of its lasers and a series of safeguards ensures that human exposure remains within regulatory limits.
And moving toward a system of accountability and testing just pushes teachers toward uniformity and limits student exposure to other important aspects of a well-rounded education.
In Asia, China's airlines fly relatively few international routes, which limits their exposure to the "war risks" cover which is proving to be the sticking point for aviation insurance.
To put the reports coming out of Japan in perspective, the NRC limits occupational radiation exposure for adults working with radioactive material to 50, 000 microsieverts a year.
There are no limits on liability exposure for passengers and crew, but the industry will receive protection from claims filed by those killed and injured on the ground in New York and Virginia.
In a Financial Times op-ed Monday, former Barclays CEO Martin Taylor relates a tale about the run-up to the Russian ruble crisis of 2008, when he claims that Diamond and traders he led at the then-nascent Barclays Capital dishonestly claimed certain counterparties were Swiss or American in order to get around limits on country exposure.
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Our generation may be criticized for over-sharing, but tragedies like this one demonstrate that there are limits to our self-exposure.
Companies are starting to take counter-measures, including relocating manufacturing facilities to Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh and generally setting limits on China-related exposure.
The same problem exists if the GSEs were reconfigured as for-profit companies but with tighter limits in areas like risk exposure and executive compensation.
"A quickly moving vessel will pass through the area quickly, and exposure will be small, " the shipping council wrote in a document challenging the limits.
However, industry sources believe exposure the ETN was holding to corn, wheat, soybeans and sugar futures was nearing limits that might attract the attention of regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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