During the downturn, many pension funds largely spurned risk and focused their real-estate investments on the safest, well-leased properties in the healthiest markets.
Typically, most prisons spend most of their time focused on risk control.
Beebe is working as a consultant with the new Big East Conference, which launches July 1, and runs a consulting service focused on risk-management services for athletic departments and pro-sports franchises.
Regarded as a cost center, it typically receives little investment and less attention Even in the JPMorgan blowup, attention has focused on risk management and controls, not on the fact that the bank apparently could not determine its losses for several weeks.
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Presumably the risk-takers there are focused for the moment more on top-line growth.
In a speech in London, he said the civil service was too often "risk averse" and "focused on process".
And the European Central Bank (ECB) may not go along while it is focused on the risk of inflation, says Julian Callow, of Barclays Capital.
In Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment, women clearly came out ahead: because they displayed less overconfidence, they traded fewer times, took on less risk, and were more focused on long-term returns.
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But when the cost and risk become too high, more effort needs to be focused on safety, and more care in analyzing the risk.
Prevention-focused people are more risk-averse, but their work is also more thorough, accurate, and carefully planned.
Conversely children who were better at paying attention and staying focused had reduced heart risk when older.
Basel I focused mainly on credit risk, international banks which were required to hold capital equal to 8% of the risk-weighted assets.
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But why would the Russian government, a generally risk-adverse and poll-focused bunch, scuttle a Syria policy that is broadly popular with the Russian public?
Labor unions have passed from the scene, and big companies know they have to stay focused on operations or risk getting overtaken by the latest startup.
The winning submission from MFX Solutions focused on eliminating currency risk for international SME lenders by adopting a proven currency-hedging strategy pioneered in the microfinance industry.
Although CSAG's products simply provide information for investors focused on the financial risk to the share values and reputations of these firms, its work has nonetheless catalyzed the recent commitment by Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Donaldson to establish a new Office of Global Security Risk at the SEC.
But, against the backdrop of an uncertain economic environment, we are focused on maintaining a strong risk profile and carefully managing expenses.
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The IMF should be urged to embark on a study, much like that conducted in January 2008, of loan conditions focused on security-related risk considerations.
Yet, the need to fundraise also runs the risk of building a board that is focused only on numbers and not the governance or long term development of the organization.
Focused on the at-risk population of approximately 1.8 million women of child-bearing age and children, this programme is developing a comprehensive approach to food security, child and maternal nutrition, which includes intense awareness-raising through media.
The pilot institute will address a focused technology area to reduce the risk and cost of commercializing and scaling-up new manufacturing products and processes.
His concern has been focused on individual Americans and the risk to them, to their lives and their property, and then on the need to begin the process of recovery.
Because the FDA's questions focused on whether there was a risk and whether the data available was powerful enough to reach a conclusion, the FDA actually got very little feedback on the topic where panelists might have helped the most: how to warn patients of a risk that may well be there.
Focused screening and information for high-risk groups could end the epidemic, experts say.
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.
They could be more focused on the front office trading and risk systems or just reluctant to integrate a variety of back office systems that have been acquired through mergers and acquisitions.
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We contrasted it with administrative characteristics: focused on predictability and stability, control of resources and risk, process is important, results are secondary.
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Creating a government agency or corporation to oversee housing finance might minimize risk taking if Fannie and Freddie dropped their mortgage portfolios and instead focused only on issuing mortgage-backed securities.
Would these type A-plus overachievers -- so focused on realizing their lifelong dream of spaceflight -- really risk it all for one last tall boy after last call?
Every company, no matter how customer focused, experiences that moment of truth when they are at risk of losing a valuable customer forever or securing them for life.
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