So much for diversification of manager risk.
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Mr. Rodriguez is 2-for-16 (.125) in the Yankees divisional playoff series versus the Baltimore Orioles, and his manager cannot risk another failed night at the plate from his high-priced 3rd baseman.
And the ultimate risk manager at any corporation is its top leader, the CEO.
Environment Agency flood risk manager Phil Younge urged people to "prepare" for further rain.
"As a financial risk manager it made me feel almost ill, " he says.
He was replaced by Michael Stockman, a former risk manager at UBS Inc.
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"We're performing a little worse than our expectation, but nothing untoward, " says Joseph Poi, Ford Motor Credit's residual risk manager.
Hence, options give a top manager the upside risk, as we say, but do not give them the downside risk.
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No, truth be told, I am an active risk manager and I will sell anything and everything if my rules are violated.
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It has long been considered the best risk manager on Wall Street.
Regional flood and coastal risk manager Peter Quarmby said early warnings gave people vital time to prepare and helped them to protect lives and property.
Colin Witheat, SmithKline's risk manager, says he can halve operating costs by cutting the fees he once paid an insurer to front business around the world.
Walter Herrera, quality control and risk manager for the Chilean mining company GeoTech, has said his company was bringing a specialized device typically used for boring water holes to the mine.
"Once people get the idea that a lot of money can be made they want to get involved, " said Peter Sharwood-Smith, West Africa regional manager for the risk consultants Drum Cussac.
No risk manager can be really useful without being able to analyse whether the multiple sales and lending activities of his institution will fall victim to those who understand how best to steal.
It was just the latest reminder of the long shadow cast by the trading loss, which has tarnished the bank's previously sterling reputation as a responsible risk manager and brought about two congressional hearings.
Phillip Pickersgill, the EA's flood risk manager for south west Wales, said the "unfortunate thing" was that the River Leri had a small catchment area and he did not believe officials had "missed any signs".
What ZestCash aims to do is really look at that question of risk propensity, using an online questionnaire and a risk manager to determine, in a Google-like data crunching way, just how risky this prospect actually is.
"There is a risk that a bank is taking results from a model and relying on those model results too extensively, " said Jeffrey Brown, a managing director at Promontory Group and former risk manager at the OCC.
Ostensibly, that is why Mr Wuffli was replaced by Marcel Rohner, the new boss, though it is not clear whether the 42-year-old former private banker and risk manager has the hard edge to cut it in investment banking.
Walter Herrera, quality control and risk manager for the Chilean mining company GeoTech, has said his company was bringing a specialized device -- a Scram T-130 drill typically used for boring water holes -- to the San Jose mine.
"I wanted to go to North Korea and because it was not yet mapped I decided to start mapping so I could at least see how easy it would be to travel within the country, " Sebastiaan van Oyen, who works as a risk manager for a financial trading firm in Sydney, told the BBC.
But, mea culpa, I slipped badly several months ago when I acted impulsively without the proper civility, balance and thoughtfulness in comments I made about the Goldman Sachs CEO, who at times in the past has enabled me to do some revealing and original reporting about Goldman which underscored that Lloyd Blankfein was undoubtedly the most brilliant and successful risk manager in finance.
If all a wealth manager does is keep longevity and inflation risk in check for a client, the manager is covering important bases.
Understanding a manager's attitude towards risk is vital.
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Had I started the job a year or two earlier, I might have found that covering things like how to be a manager, corporate strategy, risk management, governance, and corporate social responsibility was worthy but possibly sometimes a little dull.
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But to cast Flacco as a risk-averse game manager wouldn't do his Sunday performance justice.
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