So even in the most favorable scenario, Facebook investors would still have above average risk with a very average return.
If a doctor determines the overall risk is average or below average, the medical community is divided about the virtues of additional imaging such as sonograms.
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This seems logical enough: women are indeed, on average, more risk averse than men on average.
By contrast, the test can also identify those with a smaller than average risk of developing the cancers.
The report also predicted an above-average risk of a major hurricane landfall in the Caribbean and in the Bahamas.
The average risk of breast cancer death for an American woman has declined by 30 percent from 1990 to 2007.
The current recommendation for people at average risk of colon cancer is to get regular screening tests starting at age 50.
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If business travelers are more at risk than the average traveler, it is because they are less likely to take the necessary precautions, Kozarsky says.
The Investment Company Institute found that a smaller percentage of investors under 35 were willing to take above-average risk compared to those age 35-49.
Dr. Robin Morgan, a clinical psychologist and a professor at Indiana University, has discovered that professors, in general, face a higher than average risk of being stalked.
Burglary was down, by 10%, vehicle crime fell by 17%, but the survey shows that residents are exposed to a significantly higher than average risk of household crime.
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The average risk premium on the country's bonds has fallen from a peak of 18 percentage points above the interest rate on United States' Treasury bonds to below six.
For some women, however, the ACS says the jury is still out on whether MRI screening is beneficial, even though they have conditions that do give them a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer.
Table 3 below provides a summary of the annualized standard deviation and returns for each asset class, the weighted average risk and return and the total portfolio risk and return from January 1979 through December 2009.
While a correction to below the average leaves risk, an adverse change in macro is required to take shares to these levels.
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He added that most people would have at least one of the genes but it was the combination of a few that would increase a person's risk above the population average.
Because the government subsidies to purchasers of health insurance in the small-group market are significantly smaller than those in the individual market, I estimate that another 10 million people, the approximately two-thirds of the market that is low- or average-risk, will see higher insurance bills for 2014.
So what level of bleeding is an acceptable risk if patients, on average, live longer?
The 2005-2010 average difference in risk premiums is 386 bp and the February 10 differential is 264 bp.
In practice, this is not a risk that should bother the average investor.
Osterweis Strategic Income has more credit risk but lower interest-rate risk (due to shorter average duration) than some intermediate-term bond funds.
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The average tier one risk-based capital ratio for U.S. commercial banks at the end of 2009 was 11.43%, according to SNL Financial.
With new lows across all major equity averages the downside risk for the Dow Industrial Average is semiannual value levels at 9, 635 and 8, 468.
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For the Dow Industrial average I show risk to my semiannual and annual pivots at 10, 558 and 10, 379 for the Dow by the end of the year.
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Investment-grade corporate bonds, which carry only a sliver of default risk, now yield an average 1.8 percentage points more than Treasurys, up from 1.3 points in early 2000.
In addition, the team said, there is an above-average major hurricane landfall risk in the Caribbean.
So Lloyds, for example, attaches a risk weight of 16% on average against its entire book of mortgages.
One in ten people has two copies of this gene and is at double the risk of diabetes compared with the average person.
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