The balance of power is now shifting back from risk-takers to those who police them internally.
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But in attempting to shield themselves from risk manufacturers may actually be creating it.
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Although far from risk free, these opportunities are realistic because they are founded on stable, shared interests.
Their companies are the most innovative, benefit, not suffer, from risk and consistently record the best financial performance.
The most innovative of American companies in the 1980s, by the 1990s Apple seemed to run from risk.
The higher bond prices go because of demand from risk averse fixed income investors, the lower yields go.
Ms Kendall called on ministers to ensure that all former Winterbourne View residents were "safe from risk of abuse".
It is not the Fed's job to shield financial actors from risk, and Mr Bernanke no doubt realises that his credibility is at stake.
Calpers acknowledged last month that the shift it started in 2011 from risk and toward more-stable property investments is proving tougher than it expected.
Mazelis said that most cat models are run by an actuary and the most popular, from Risk Management Solutions, takes a long time.
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Entrepreneurs like Gates didn't make their fortune by shying from risk.
Investors fleeing from risk drove the dollar up and pushed the yield on one-month Treasury bills into negative territory for the first time in ten months.
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Many of us start to see success or failure as the building blocks of our identity and as a result, we begin to insulate ourselves from risk.
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Eleven babies were born from the low risk group (61% success rate) compared to five from the medium risk group (19% success rate) and none from those deemed high risk.
These internal committees, made up of several high-level executives, mostly from risk-management divisions, have pledged not to reveal a whistle-blower's identity or to punish him for speaking up.
The General Medical Council says doctors can disclose patient information without their permission where necessary "to protect individuals or society from risk of serious harm such as... serious crime".
What is clear, though, is that the weight of speculative bets on the pound, however these trades were funded, made it vulnerable to a correction once the markets started their retreat from risk.
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To Mr Shimpi, this outcome is absurd, the result of an arbitrary wall that has historically separated finance directors, who deal with debt and equity, from risk managers, who deal with hedging and insurance.
Meanwhile, other precious metals with industrial ties such as silver and the platinum group metals have faltered as investors move from risk and from concerns about reduced global growth increase amid disappointing economic data.
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But my best guess is that someone on that risk free arbitrage desk moved from risk free pure arbitrage into very definitely not risk free time arbitrage, or speculation as we should call it, then the market moved against his bet.
It is also worth noting that in order for mean-reversion-based strategies to work, it is not required that the mean be realized for long periods of time, but that markets continue to behave as they always have, swinging pendulum like between the depths of despair and irrational exuberance , or, from risk-on to risk-off.
Euro investors have also been moving away from risk, as the yields on German debt have dropped 3%, matching similar yield declines in both the UK and the US. Nevertheless, the DJ STOXX Europe 600 was able to close the week well above the lows, as it tested strong support in the 272 to 274 area early in the week.
The new securities would possess a unique combination of attributes, including inflation protection, freedom from default risk, freedom from all taxes, ultimate diversification, and upside potential based upon future improvements in economic policy.
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The individual health risk from radiation exposure at Fukushima is very small, he contends, no higher than the risk of death from violent crime in Japan.
It is expected to allow a pregnancy to be terminated in cases where there is a risk to the life of a woman, as distinct from a risk to her health.
They will miss the comfortable refuge from default risk, the wealth of noncallable issues, the exemption from state income tax and the dependable benchmark that corporate bond issuers use to price their securities.
The risk of oral cancer from smokeless tobacco is low--far lower than the oral cancer risk from smoking cigarettes.
In fact, while the low-risk patients might not receive any benefit from the test, there is at least some risk from radiation--which is higher for a CT angiogram than a traditional X-ray.
The best practices in traditional risk management are vital, as Gary points out, but they are not enough to protect a company from economic risk.
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