This may be a safe strategy, but it has one very large risk.
Investors take the bait on the bet that death will be slow enough, or new revenues will be big enough, to diminish the rather large risk of permanently depressed share prices.
But scaling back monetary and fiscal stimulus will be easier than digging the world economy out of a deflationary hole which, if the OECD's forecast is right, remains an uncomfortably large risk.
Dr. EDWARD RICE (Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Foster School of Business, University of Washington): I can take a very large risk and basically be risking the Treasury's money where, if it pays off, I win, and if it doesn't pay off, the Treasury loses.
"Cleantech investing is mostly large in scale, large in risk and large in potential rewards, " Dolezalek says.
Taking this large a risk on any one position can eventually destroy your account.
The purpose is to reduce the risk of a large portfolio loss by balancing portfolio risk among different investment types.
Of course, junk bonds come by their name honestly, and the high yield market still harbors a large amount of risk.
"Frequent and large reassessments of risk and high volatility in asset prices are likely to remain a part of the scene for some time, " it explained said.
Besides, it seems to Baghdadis that the British and Americans are running short of targets to bomb in central Baghdad that will not risk large civilian casualties.
After all, even when a large company encourages risk-taking, there are limits to how much money a bet on innovation can lose before the person responsible for it pays a career price.
So investment in art might have a role to play in reducing risk in large portfolios.
It would just be too large a portion of risk for anyone to want to actually take.
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Investors recognize difficult personalities and large egos as high risk for effective execution.
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At the time, it warned that between 150 and 300 large schemes were at risk and being actively investigated.
There is also a risk that large amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, could escape during shale-gas exploration and production.
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But the risk of large-scale terrorism is the primary concern, Kelly said.
There was a large amount of headline risk throughout the survey period.
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With free private markets in resources, goods, and ideas mistakes tend to be corrected more rapidly than under central planning, minimizing the risk of large errors.
The International Energy Agency said that "political risk writ large" dominates much of the energy market, "and not just in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya or Venezuela".
In theory, these bets promised large profits at little risk: MF Global revealed the basic components of its European bet in May, prompting no evident concern in markets.
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If you skimp, you risk paying large and unpredictable costs.
In the past, nations such as Ireland have pumped billions of taxpayers' money into propping up their banks, rather than risk upsetting large investors and spooking the financial system.
In addition, a fiduciary is obligated to provide a diversified portfolio to minimize the risk of large losses and to select and monitor those investment alternatives to ensure they are prudent.
With earnings growth set to slow, dividends becoming increasingly important, fixed income falling out of favor and investors looking to avoid risk, large cap is the way to go, said Sandler.
The particles are large enough that the risk of contracting polio in the air is momentary, and on a surface like a desk or a chair, it can last an hour or two.
The problem is that for many large firms, systemic risk is a matter of exogenous events, sort of like comets which originate outside the normal operations of the solar system, suddenly appearing, flashing across the sky and then disappearing.
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Two issues that small investors often run into when looking at purchasing municipal bonds are how can they diversify their risk across multiple municipal bonds, and how can they afford to diversify the risk with large minimum investments required?
It could also explain why Pfizer is willing to take the risk of running a large heart trial in patients with severe heart disease--exactly where risk is most likely to turn up.
Study co-author Geoffrey Abers of Columbia University said that "there's something important about getting unexpectedly large earthquakes out of small systems that we have discovered here, " adding that "the risk of humans inducing large earthquakes from even small injection activities is probably higher" than had been believed.
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