Even though default rates on commercial mortgage-backed securities are less than 1.0%--compared with higher than 20.0% for high-risk home loans--that level is expected to rise as the global economic slowdown makes business conditions increasingly difficult for hotels, retailers and other companies carrying office building mortgages.
Coastal areas are at increasing risk from sea-level rise and storm surge.
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It may sound paradoxical, but addressing IT risk requires business-level participation.
In the aftermath of the big trading error, Knight also said it would create a board-level risk committee and a chief risk officer position.
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These internal committees, made up of several high-level executives, mostly from risk-management divisions, have pledged not to reveal a whistle-blower's identity or to punish him for speaking up.
The Broadcasting Code states that broadcasters must take precautions to maintain a low-level risk to viewers who have photosensitive epilepsy and should give warning if they do go ahead with such lighting.
The first was that working-class communities were most at risk from the kind of pervasive low-level criminality that blights lives.
New York has been on "orange" alert, or the second-highest level -- indicating a high risk of terror attack -- since the color-coded warning system was established after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The outcome is that - compared to a tolerable risk level of one in 100, 000 (in any one year) - we have actually come out with a risk of one in 112.
Figures from the central bank show that credit lines to finance trade, normally considered low-risk, are running at about half the level of mid-September.
"She will be treated like any other low-level security risk, " he said.
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Instead, McPherson used the executive session to once again stress the value of great television and the level of risk-taking it takes to achieve.
Instead, they use a rate that reflects the risk borne by plan retirees--that is, a low level of risk.
Previous research has indicated that low-level lead exposure may increase the risk of a number of chronic age-related diseases.
Even though the company experienced several low-level nuclear accidents in recent years TEPCO has never appointed a board-level committee to oversee enterprise risk management, and because of the limited presence of independent directors on its board, suffered from a lack of alternate perspectives in its board room.
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"They're very high-risk people and so the level of other treatments was very high, " Arnett said.
Using either target level, the risk-reward was clearly favorable.
Overhauling capital requirements and eliminating Level-3 risk might in some way minimise systemic risk and damage, but it will not eliminate the ongoing material risk associated with the continuing fraud schemes that today's risk managers, boards and banks do not seem to take all that seriously.
The threat is more evident in heavily populated low-lying areas, and the risk multiplies with prospects of climate change and associated sea-level rise.
The difficulty is that people do not often know their true level of heart disease risk - and may simply decide to treat themselves.
It was a new level of responsibility, risk-taking and way of relating to others that was absolutely essential for striking out on my own into new territory.
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Despite widespread exposure to risk, relatively few respondents report board-level oversight of their water policies, strategies or plans (39%), and even fewer report setting concrete targets or goals (30%).
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The RAIB said it had made four recommendations to Network Rail which included assessing the need for additional engineered safety measures at level crossings, like Moreton-on-Lugg and targeted improvements to its processes for managing risk at level crossings.
He felt that my advice to him was based on too much optimism about the future and was putting him at risk - even though I had been right and he had made money at a risk level that was very low.
As a result, these venture capitalists are struggling to raise new rounds of capital from their limited partners since they do not believe that the potential returns of providing that mid-level capital is worth the risk of loss.
The address on March 14th by Deputy Secretary of Energy Henson Moore before the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations entitled, "Soviet Energy in the 1990s" offers an excellent opportunity to illuminate for the public the results of such cabinet-level deliberations as well as U.S. objectives for the forging of "risk-sensitive" alliance policies.
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Figuring this was an especially high-risk case, Dr. Gay started the baby on three standard antiretroviral drugs at higher, treatment-level doses.
In truth, there have been no fundamental changes over the past decade: Investors still want attractive long-term returns relevant to their level of risk.
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