People are a little risk averse. So what?

Well, their answer was, It's all about risk and reward.

My reservations are principally about the moral hazard problem, and I don't really know how we can best avoid the moral hazard.

The procuring entity should therefore take steps to avoid running such a performance risk.

Defending against the knife attack is a very dangerous proposition... and should be avoided if possible.

We believe that the stakes are high, but that the returns will be even greater.

It's the kind of very high risk, but potentially very high return thing that we do.

When you put it in plain English, you almost force the institution to give the people a way, a default out of that, and not put themselves at risk.

That means when we're in a risk mindset excuse me, when we're in a loss mindset, we actually become more risky, which can actually be really worrying.

102. In the military sector, the benefits of system connectivity and interoperability have led to the recognition that security risk management strategies must be adopted in preference to risk avoidance strategies.

She maintains that she risks the same treatment if returned to Bangladesh.

This response is understandably controversial, because it rewards those who bet on risky assets, many of whom accepted risk with open eyes and bear some responsibility for causing the crisis. But an effective rescue cannot be done any other way.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

The utilisation of the subterranean depth of the owned land or the land at person's disposal for private purposes is free of charge.

Obregon knows I did it.

Material conditions are also precarious particularly in the three conflict areas exposing returnee families to the risk of separation, and returnee children and mothers to the risks of exploitation and abuses en route.

Risk?

A differentiated rate of social insurance contribution payments was established, i.e., persons are insured and they make social insurance contribution payments against those risks, which may occur in reality.

The fund's objectives, typically, are those of (a) maximizing risk adjusted returns, (b) security of capital and (c) liquidity, and their respective attitudes to risk.

At the same time, however, commercial banks insist on minimizing their exposure to completion, commercial, political or other project risks.

In order to reduce disaster risks, countries and communities must first identify risk factors, decide what level of risk is acceptable, and then take steps to reduce risks or transfer them away from affected areas.

Such NGO engagement helps to avoid the risk of conflict and possible destabilization of the region as a whole.

Recent events of international terrorism, while sparing United Nations facilities, presage a further widening of risks that spares no country or activity.

Inevitably, any entity must accept that some damage will occur at some point and must choose to transfer some risk using insurance, thus securing a source of financial compensation for part of the loss.

Well, the so what? comes when start thinking about the same problem set up just a little bit differently.

The more broadly diversified our financial portfolios, the more people there are who share in the inevitable risks and the less an individual is affected by any given risk. The theoretical ideal occurs when financial contracts spread the risks all over the world, so that billions of willing investors each own a tiny share, and no one is over exposed.

Risks

In fact, when you go back to the beginning, there were no private investors who would be willing to take a risk on building a new technology for a market class that made under a dollar a day, that were known to be some of the most risk averse people on the planet and that were working in one of the riskiest sectors, agriculture.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

Yes, the hurricane cellar.

But on the other hand, I hear people talking about fear, a sense of risk aversion.

In view of the growing importance of demining activities for the United Nations, it is important that the appropriate operational protocol is achieved in order to minimize the Organization s exposure to the risk of third party damage claims, at the same time avoiding a commitment to expensive insurance coverage when the actual operational risks are either ill defined or, indeed, negligible.

Obliged to borrow on the international markets in order to fund basic development projects often shunned by private investors, who considered the related risks too high, they faced rising debts.

The risk is too great.

(v) Risk management.

(c) The recruitment of competent and experienced fuel specialists for field missions

The assessment of risk

It'd be too risky.

These other risk management departments shall take charge of identifying and evaluating various kinds of risks, including their own compliance risks, and reporting the related compliance risk information to the compliance department, and shall, with cooperation with the compliance department, monitor and evaluate compliance risk.

National investment insurance programmes exist in most developed countries to provide coverage for expropriation, war and repatriation risks.

The results of the assessment initiatives (see para. 280 above) will be used as the basis for determining UNDP priorities for managing information security risks and for implementing contingency measures to protect against those risks.

Wait and see at the fortress?

Its next annual conference, to be held in Seoul in March 2006, will address issues related to the institutional basis for disaster risk reduction, recovery and risk communication, in response to the Hyogo Framework.

(3) monitoring identifying, evaluating and reporting compliance risks

(10) risk management.