Savings funds have a rising appetite for less liquid, higher-risk assets such as private equity and property.
Once higher-risk customers have been more accurately identified, the cost of credit to the rest should fall.
But there is another type of successful startup as well, that is often a higher-risk gamble for investors.
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Though there will be some IPOs of companies with great fundamentals, many successful IPOs are often higher-risk investments.
Commodities as a whole fell with other so-called higher-risk assets such as equities due to global economic slowing, Brooks said.
What will happen instead is that the higher-risk segment will be cut off entirely, including the unbanked and underbanked population.
Individuals with certain birth defects of the heart that have not been completely repaired also fall into this higher-risk group.
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BlackRock's concern is that problems at some of the higher-risk ETFs could potentially give the whole category a black eye.
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They say inspections should be made at least every three years, and at least once a year for higher-risk sites.
Boston Scientific's lead is sure to advance further, as doctors present more data today showing that its stent works in especially higher-risk patients.
Previously the company axed higher-risk auto insurance, ditched most non-North American insurance business and converted employee-agents into independent contractors responsible for their own benefits.
In fleeing higher-risk assets these investors are trading in the possibility of loss for the certainty of eventual real-wealth losses in traditional fixed-income securities.
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Same goes for higher-risk whole loans to homeowners with subprime credit.
This was mostly the result of loans to low-income, higher-risk borrowers.
Many money managers were among his clients, and found that, while only slightly riskier than traditional investments, the higher-risk bonds contained the potential for much greater rewards.
Allstate went with a frisky higher-risk investment strategy to boost its returns, and as a result got hammered during the Bad Days, as its still-ailing stock demonstrates.
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Police have previously said "policing higher-risk fixtures later in the afternoon increases the likelihood of disorder over a longer period of time and impacts upon policing the night-time economy".
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With the sophistication of our ePassports, RFID, and biometric identification it would save time and conserve the limited resources of border protection officers so they can concentrate on higher-risk travelers.
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There is some risk that further downward revisions in global growth could lead to them continuing to trade as higher-risk plays rather than reflecting the superior structural features of their economies.
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In reality, investors shifted funds from higher-risk to lower-risk assets in response to European sovereign risk worries and apparent weakening in the U.S. economy, as well as uncertainty created by the U.S. downgrade.
The Scottish Executive said the fire service was concentrating prevention work on areas at the greatest risk, with "higher-risk premises" such as hotels and pubs receiving more in-depth and rigorous inspections than ever before.
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Whereas Fannie Mae is required by statute to have private mortgage insurance on loans with low down-payments, national banks originate billions of dollars in higher-risk mortgage loans utilising the Federal Housing Administration's government-guaranteed mortgage insurance.
By taking the higher-risk strategy of owning the goods and reselling them rather than acting as a fee-based broker, Via Trading is positioned to benefit from high markups on goods such as tools, electronics and clothing.
Though its financials are good, oil-exploration companies are usually considered higher-risk deals due to the volatility of energy prices and the possibility that they may not be able to take all their wells into viable production.
Businesses will only face health and safety inspections if they are operating in areas deemed to be higher-risk, such as construction and food production, or if they have had an accident or a track record of poor performance.
Tenthoff says this Byzantine arrangement is good for the company because it makes it clear to investors that the higher-risk work being done by the Genzyme divisions is separate from the steady, dependable niche-drug development that has kept Genzyme in the top ranks of biotechs.
"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk and deserved our best shot, " Dr Gay said.
The complaint also says that Fannie listed its exposure to higher-than-normal-risk Alt-A loans by nearly half.
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"Low-risk stocks, unlike what conventional wisdom would say, deliver if anything higher returns than high-risk stocks, " says Baker, who was an Olympic rower on an eight-man crew in the 1992 games.
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