"We found a trading operation that piled on risk, ignored limits on risk-taking, hid losses, dodged oversight and misinformed the public, " said Carl Levin, the subcommittee's chairman.
"We found a trading operation that piled on risk, ignored limits on risk-taking, hid losses, dodged oversight and misinformed the public, " said Carl Levin, the subcommittee chairman, who is a Democrat.
If this risk is priced at the source, like pollution is, it should deter taking on this risk to some degree.
Yet at a time when rates are at historic lows, the government continues to rely on short-term financing, taking on tremendous rollover risk.
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In their determination not to make a wrong bet, nobody is taking on risk.
Some, like small-cap funds, will require taking on more risk than others, he notes.
We avoid ETNs because we are not comfortable taking on credit risk in our managed portfolios.
Whenever you make more money or you're hoping to make more money, that's because you're taking on more risk.
The banking sector is no longer taking on unhedged risk en masse like it was in 2008.
In other words, are we getting a higher return from value stocks, or merely taking on more risk.
This requires taking on more risk, but the key difference is that these risks can be diversified and managed.
The bank was told to examine how it pays top executives, and how they are rewarded for taking on risk.
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"You're taking on more risk only to pay a higher price for every dollar of expected profit today, " he says.
Then he will look at the Sharpe ratio to see which funds are taking on outsize risk to get those returns.
So is taking on risk, the task for which our neighbors who toil in the financial vineyards are so richly rewarded.
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About half of the respondents said they are taking on less risk.
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It can show potential losses from a storm, and also potential lost premium a carrier would suffer by not taking on the risk.
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Financial spouses tend to be analytical and more prone to taking on risk, but financial planning and investing is not an exact science.
Extraordinarily low volatility in many markets was still the rule a year ago, so many investors were taking on more risk than they realized.
That is when you buy stocks, you need to be aware that you're taking on market risk, and this obviously did not go your way.
And buying sovereign debt locally inevitably means taking on currency risk.
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The quest for higher yields is inflating a bubble in junk bonds, and investors are taking on more risk as they try to improve their performance.
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One was introduced by Democrats Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Carl Levin of Michigan to bar banks from proprietary trading and impose tougher capital standards on risk taking.
The rewards for taking on more risk are simply insufficient.
Those of you who own maturing bonds will have to make a choice between reinvesting at lower interest rates or taking on more risk to get a higher yield.
The uncertainty of a stock sale in this environment, where the markets are volatile and investors are skittish about taking on risk, is one reason why expectations were high of a bank-led buyout.
The fund offers investors a way to take advantage of the relative strength of emerging and developed Asian markets without taking on the risk associated with most emerging market funds.
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