These companies shoulder a chunk of the risk that property-casualty carriers take on.
There were said to be a "slight concern" of the risk to property, but the brigade said it was confident it would be in a position to defend any threatened homes.
Businesses and private non-profit organizations of any size may borrow funds to repair or replace disaster damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets, or to make improvements that lessen the risk of property damage by future disasters of the same kind.
This suggests one way to reduce the risk of a property bubble: rely less on bank debt to finance construction, and more on equity.
The greatest economic risk for commercial property owners is recession.
The IMF said there was an increasing risk of a property bubble due to an abundance of global liquidity, record-low interest rates and an unusually tight supply of new housing in Hong Kong.
It said it was receiving a high number of flood-related calls and, with more rain forecast, urged the public to call 999 only if there was a risk to life or risk of serious property or environmental damage.
In fact, much of the risk of a property crash still resided in the banks, and the complex nature of derivatives made their exposure very hard to calculate, leading to a loss of confidence in almost all of them.
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Check the risk of flooding for your property and, if you're at risk, move valuable items to safety.
Adherence to safe practices is mandatory, greatly reducing risk to life, property, and the environment.
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But the trials may be scuppered by the understandable reluctance of farmers to put their property at risk.
Anything can be insured for the right price, and the risk of people or property being held for ransom is no exception.
Companies who show up looking for aid in the art of interconnectedness face no fees, no risk of surrendering intellectual property and no requirements of exclusivity.
Engineers advised residents to move after a retaining wall at the back of the property was at risk of collapsing.
If a society doesn't have strong property rights, risk-taking declines.
White says that all across the country widows are at risk of having their matrimonial property taken by their late husband's relatives, often leaving them and their children homeless.
Because of the growing demand for investors seeking to understand how their portfolios will be affected and how they can reduce their risk, the new green property indexes should be well received for institutional investors.
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The sales effort is a way to reduce exposure to some of the high-risk, high-return property funds that got scuffed up during the financial crisis, said Timothy Walsh, director of the New Jersey Division of Investment, which manages the state's pension money.
Total economic losses from weather-related disasters are higher in developed countries with more property and wealth at risk.
Calpers acknowledged last month that the shift it started in 2011 from risk and toward more-stable property investments is proving tougher than it expected.
Second, smaller foreign investors began to pull back as they realized that manufacturing in China substantially increased the risk of loss of their intellectual property.
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He said simple measures, including fitting water-resistant skirting boards and installing plug sockets further up the wall, would help property owners minimise the risk of damage.
Insurance companies have a pretty good idea of the risk of insuring a specific individual and property.
Savings funds have a rising appetite for less liquid, higher-risk assets such as private equity and property.
As a prospective purchaser or seller, the investor may feel that the property has more or less risk than the appraiser.
These days doctors, accountants, corporate officers and business and property owners all face increased risk from out-of-control jury awards and zealous regulators.
Many executives and employees fail to see how these valuable tools can expose the organization to increased risk of data leakage and lost intellectual property.
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.
The next time you drive and are tempted to top the posted limit, ask yourself if the risk of tickets, increased insurance premiums, property damage, or injuring or killing another person is worth arriving at your destination just a few minutes sooner.
Students are notoriously hard on housing and they are known to hop from property to property, leaving older properties more at risk of occupancy declines.
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