In June, the Federal Reserve, joined by the Office of Controller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision, issued final guidance to promote and ensure sound incentive compensation and avoid imprudent risk-taking.
The firm will move its 40 U.S.-based workers to a self-insured plan in June, in part to avoid the health law's risk-spreading provisions that could raise its costs, said CEO Randy Keith.
It utilizes a proprietary hedging program with puts and calls, seeking to reduce risk and avoid sector, interest-rate and market-timing risks.
So, despite the improvement in the Japan situation on Friday and the declaration of a no-fly zone over Libya, traders decided to avoid the potential headline risk and went back to risk-off mode into the close.
This has encouraged caution rather than risk-taking, with individuals preferring to avoid mistakes when possible and hide them if necessary.
The stampede was partly an attempt to reduce the amount of capital banks needed to reserve against possible losses on such bonds, as well as an effort to avoid the wrath of risk-averse investors, executives say.
If the instinct to avoid risk were universal, fixed-rate home mortgages would not exist.
Volume does not always equate to value or quality however, and many U.S.-based firms prefer keeping certain operations in-house altogether to avoid any risk.
Mr Weber, the UBS chairman and former president of Germany's central bank, called for a global regulatory standard that would allow banks to avoid fine-tuning their risk operations in individual countries.
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The effort to minimize any grounds for fearing Obama has an abiding, if covert, attachment to Islam has prompted him to risk offending Muslims in order to avoid off-message controversies and photo ops.
In an article published in the Financial Times newspaper, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warned governments that they must balance spending cuts with measures to support growth to avoid the risk of a double-dip recession.
The bank levy, in particular, will drive banking activity overseas, and banks will avoid most risk adjustments through accounting sleights-of-hand.
If no attendant is present, however, the risk score goes up, because fraudsters prefer to avoid face-to-face purchases.
Avoid single stock risk by trading and investing in exchange-traded funds based on industrial metals and mining.
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Many are discussing how regulation can help avoid another bubble of speculation and stud-like risk assumption in the future, but the best protection may be right in front of us: gender-balanced teams at the top.
If this characterizes your own behavior, consider building a diversified portfolio for the core 80-90% of your assets, while limiting headline-grabbing and higher risk themes to 10% at a time in order to avoid too much damage should your positions turn against you.
He said the demo version could only self-park in an area equipped with sensors and restricted to other robotic cars to avoid the risk of collision.
While some daredevils may want to risk it and enjoy a juicy steak regardless of their alpha-gal allergy, the only true way to avoid an allergy attack is to avoid the food itself.
Not a great 3%-plus recovery, because the Fed will have sucked up liquidity starting this summer to avoid the risk of more inflation.
Coming so soon after Seattle, any meeting would need to be a stunning success to avoid being judged a catastrophic failure, and would also run the risk of a repeat of Seattle-style chaos.
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Meanwhile, London's public transport authorities have been warning commuters for weeks to avoid travel hotspots around the time of the Games -- but have not stressed any additional security risk.
"I am issuing guidance to both prisons and probation staff to highlight the need to avoid over-emphasis on good behaviour in prison and the progress in addressing what are called dynamic risk factors when assessing risk prior to release, " he said.
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