Army leaders may have belatedly wised up to the fact that every additional performance requirement comes at a price, but their solution of transferring risk to industry is just going to accelerate the migration of contractors into other lines of work.
Derivatives and other tools of financial engineering can be used to manage risk better by hedging positions and transferring unwanted risk to a counterparty, which is what banks say they mostly use them for.
It would also be transferring the risk associated with patient care to investors.
In particular, a financial aid package for Poland should avoid transferring credit risk from private commercial banks to Western governments and taxpayers as a way of covering and thereby encouraging loans from private credit markets.
Reinsurance is a process whereby an insurance company spreads its risk by transferring a portion of a policy's liability to another insurer, which keeps part of the premium.
The rising burden of defined-benefit schemes is forcing some firms to restrict them to existing staff and to put new recruits into new, defined-contribution schemes, thereby transferring to the employee the risk of low investment returns in the future.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report warns football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, transferring players, and betting on the sport.
At the time, health minister and North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said "lives had been put at risk" because of delays in transferring patients from ambulances to the hospital.
Although the children's lives were not at immediate risk, doctors said they were considering transferring the children to a specialised clinic in Belgrade because of the danger of their wounds deteriorating, Tanjug news agency reported.
Middling performers can reduce risk by going to low-cost state and community colleges, perhaps transferring to another school after two years if they do well.
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