It means that like stock funds, bond funds also have some risk associated with them.
Some of these risks, according to Upendra Choudhary, senior vice president of credit services at Amba Research, include trading risk (some of these markets are thinly traded and have low liquidity), political risk and transparency risk (some areas have no or at least confusing accounting standards).
We have to take some risk but not open ourselves to dead-ball situations.
When hedge funds did have some issues with risk, they yelled at their prime brokers to do something about it.
Financial planners use the term risk tolerance in assessing how much volatility or fluctuation of principal an investor is comfortable with, knowing that all investments have some degree of risk and most investments fluctuate in value.
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But pub landlords in nine of the Republic's 26 counties have passed motions in parliament criticising the move - and some have vowed to risk heavy fines by ignoring the law.
But if they have credible information of some risk to the public, officers can use powers of arrest and force - providing they use the minimum necessary in the circumstances.
"These banks are big and you can argue that these kinds of settlements have some mitigating effect on risk-taking, " says Gary Biddle, professor of accounting at the University of Hong Kong.
The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.
If the activity you're good at is driving down the highway at 110 mph, then you may have a career in some risk-filled, highly stimulating arena like investing on the commodities exchange or being an investigative reporter.
That will be hardest for smaller funds, which have higher fixed costs relative to their assets, and which some clients already worry have poor risk controls.
"DPP members have all been made aware that there is a risk and that some members have been receiving silent phonecalls, " Mr McKee said.
Bond investors have become choosier about sovereign credit risk, so some euro-area borrowers have had to stump up higher coupons for their recent bond issues.
To be clear, in order to make money in the stock market, you have to accept some level of risk.
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It was, as some have put it, risk management without the management.
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In a report earlier this year, Mr. Hunter found that insurers have been pushing some of their risk to consumers by capping how much they will pay to replace a home, for example, or refusing to pay extra to account for higher material costs or to meet modern construction codes.
Lawyers who have visited or interviewed their clients say a majority of the 166 men held at Guantanamo have joined the protest and some have lost significant weight and are at serious risk.
Patients with HL do have some immune suppression because of the disease and have a higher risk of getting certain infections.
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Some studies have found an increased risk of breast cancer, but others found no connection.
Environmental groups and some Democrats have warned against the risk of a spill, while industry groups and many Republicans said the project would create jobs and bring petrol prices down.
Not that you need to deprive yourself of yields if you want to get into fixed-income, an asset class as a whole that has flexed its muscles of late, but you would have had to take on some credit risk.
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While Indonesia's right to rule in Irian is not contested by the United Nations, as in the case of East Timor, the country's own political scientists have warned for some years of the risk of Balkanization should the imbalances between eastern and western Indonesia not be addressed.
These models have been so helpful in managing risk at least some of the time that they have made the world far richer.
Even for patients at modest risk of heart attacks--meaning that they have heart disease, diabetes, or a combination of some risk factors--the new guidelines suggest lowering cholesterol at least 30-40%.
As public companies, we have dropped the ball in terms of some risk management.
There is some risk that after you have sunk your money in, Congress will double-cross you with a change in the tax laws.
Patients who are successfully treated for HL continue to have this immune suppression and long term have a higher risk of leukemia and some other cancers because of their therapy.
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The 34 others have some form of guaranteed "high-risk-pool" capped-cost coverage that is nonetheless expensive enough to drown many potential customers in debt, and limited enough to pile large out-of-pocket costs on those who can afford the premiums.
Some analysts have argued, however, that risk for naproxen would bode well for Pfizer on Celebrex.
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