To identify the most transparent and trustworthy businesses that trade on American exchanges, Forbes turned to GMI Ratings (GMI), a pioneer in the application of non-traditional risk measures for financial analysis.
It said it would work with Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review the effectiveness of flood risk reduction measures.
Education policy needs to aggressively adopt the same kind of risk adjustment measures, if we hope to identify which high schools are truly doing the best job of educating their students and preparing them for the future.
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Risk-adjusted measures of compensation work only if risk is being measured properly, for example, and the industry has proved how unsafe an assumption that is.
It found no evidence that Krung Thai required risk-mitigation measures such as identification of anchor tenants.
According to a survey of industry practices published by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in March, many banks still fail to use risk-adjusted measures either to calculate the size of their bonus pool or to allocate it.
If investors like low beta, also known as low risk, then USAA measures up.
Their quantitative measures of risk saw more demand after Hurricane Andrew ten years ago.
These mortality measures were risk-adjusted for six diagnoses and six surgical procedures.
The risk with such crude measures is that it is easy to overdo things and cause a more severe contraction than intended.
But though they acknowledge the risk of counter-measures, their calculation is that none of Israel's likely foes is technologically advanced enough to beat them in a contest between lance and shield.
The suggested revision adds two ideas to the same basic regime: in deciding how much capital is needed, make greater use of, first, credit-rating agencies' measures of risk and, second, banks' internal risk-management models.
One of the ways the market measures credit risks is by looking at the spreds of credit default swaps, a default insurance derivatives market that measures the risk of buying foreign bonds as compared to buying a comparable maturity from the US Treasury.
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The second choice is to take bolder action--we abolish the "Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization" status that credit ratings firms currently have (as provided by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) and open up the way for competition that encourages the growth of new and diverse types of credit assessment firms that cater to investor needs with objective and dynamic measures of risk.
An accompanying article in the same journal questions whether the study accurately measures colon cancer risk.
Investors need objective and dynamic measures of credit risk, especially in today's volatile and fast-paced market environment.
All have matched or beaten the Nareit index in the past five years and score high in our Best Buy ratings system, which measures performance against risk and expenses.
Mr Bush knows he is taking a risk in pushing ahead with measures which tie him firmly to efforts to revive the economy but which may not have the desired effect.
Instead, investors should seek more timely measures of sovereign risk, preferably through price signals from competitive debt and credit default swap markets, and whenever those are unavailable, from more objective and transparent models.
It will require evidence of what the organisation knew about the risk posed by Savile, what complaints it received and what protective measures it put into operation to guard against that risk.
Tighter control measures to reduce the risk of bovine TB spreading between cattle have been introduced in England.
Dr Belcaro has been looking at possible protective measures for high-risk passengers.
They argued that the measures are disproportionate, risk fundamental rights and freedoms and that the text is too vague, leaving it too open to interpretation.
Simply watching the VIX has failed traders in recent years, and technical tools like Bollinger bands and Starc bands have proven to be more effective measures of volatility and risk.
Financial services are so globalised that it probably requires the International Monetary Fund to make new taxes on bonuses and financial transactions effective, along with other measures to curb excessive risk-taking.
And part of any thoughtful preplanning should be identifying incentives that encourage states and localities to put in place measures that mitigate the risk of needless loss of life and property.
Another risk is that a proliferation of measures could be a gift to interest groups, letting them pick numbers that amplify their misery in order to demand a bigger share of the national pie.
As the economic news worsens and profits dive, more firms will be at risk of breaching covenants on standard measures such as the ratio of debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
The CHMP was also concerned by liver test results in patients taking Kynamro showing a build-up of fat in the liver and increased enzyme levels, and was not convinced that the company had proposed sufficient measures to prevent the risk of irreversible liver damage.
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