Rare are the stocks that are both low-risk investment bets and super achievers.

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China's biggest state-owned lender by assets, set up a fund for customers to invest in high-end pu'er tea, marketing it as a low-risk investment.

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One research company that has created a stock screen of dividend-growth stocks is Value Line, whose list includes stocks that are comparatively low-risk investment choices.

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Houses, to the lenders, are a secure low-risk investment.

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Rubenstein then suggested Carlyle's new closed-end investment fund as a low-risk option and a "good investment, " Huffington contends.

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And if such stocks have the added feature of being relatively low-risk investments, that would be like finding an investment nirvana.

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Based on prices, the expected risk is low in Treasury securities and investment-grade bonds.

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That being said, we see the expected risk in Treasury securities and investment-grade bonds as low.

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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.

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