The study subjects also saw their cholesterol levels - another key heart risk indicator - more than halved on average.
Their Global Risk Assessment Indicator (GRAI) shows strong convinction for a broad market decline in the days ahead.
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Yet, ROE may work better as an indicator of risk than of potential return.
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Badly designed compensation is an indicator of poor corporate governance, and poor corporate governance is an indicator of investment risk.
The stockmarket is used both as a barometer of investors' risk aversion and as a lead indicator of economic health.
In a study last year, the International Monetary Fund concluded that ratings were a reasonably good indicator of sovereign-default risk.
On another front, we look at how bonds are priced in the market as an indicator of deteriorating finances or enhanced risk.
Mr. Khosla shared his advice at that event, as he did at SXSW, with a focus on the necessity and centrality of risk, and how it can be a key indicator that we are on the right track.
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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.
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
Bond spreads are an indicator of growth: investors are happy to take the risk of owning corporate bonds, and spreads come down, when the economy, and thus business revenues, are strengthening.
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But they are a good indicator of a company's ability to assess consumer creditworthiness and risk.
Hunt said a strong indicator of the problem is Kentucky's large number of runaways, who are at high risk for being trafficked, and the number of kids incarcerated each year for "status offenses" such as running away or truancy.
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