These tools often hint at a maximum risk amount, although they are never accurate.
In his evidence to MPs, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson described the current moment in time as one of "maximum risk".
Likewise, when the market has gone up for several periods in a row and we are all giddy, we may be at the point of maximum risk.
FORBES: Understand The Cycle Of Market Emotions To Make Better Investing Decisions
The questions are often focused on determining your maximum tolerance for risk, and then recommending that maximum risk level because this how Wall Street makes the most money.
But Sir David said the current reorganisation under the government's NHS reforms meant it was a period of "maximum risk" and he had promised the health service and ministers he would see through the changes.
The zones of maximum earthquake risk are near India's borders.
The AAP shrank the pool of infants deemed at risk for RSV and lowered the maximum time for treatment from five months to three.
FORBES: Obamacare's Rationers Employ The "It's Good For You" Defense
We will do it in such a way as to avoid risk to the public and misappropriation by others and ensure maximum public confidence.
Rana's lawyer, Patrick Blegen, argued for a more lenient sentence than the maximum of 30 years, saying the Pakistani-born Canadian did not present a future risk.
Berkley said industry risk models have all but abandoned the once common indicator known as "Absolute Maximum Loss, " preferring to base premiums on the more conservative "Probable Maximum Loss" calculation, which lowers damage estimates by factoring in long odds of catastrophic events.
Spain was unable to borrow the maximum 3.5bn euros it wished to do - and investors ended up demanding the Spanish government pay an expensive 5% interest rate for supposedly risk-free 12-month loans (Belgium too didn't sell the maximum debt on offer).
Statistical measures of the maximum trading losses these firms could face on those positions suggest that, in aggregate, they are taking more risk.
应用推荐