This is a sensible and POSITIVE outcome as risk premiums represent the cost that hedgers pay to speculators to bear the risk they want to avoid.
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In my next blog post, we will talk about assessing the ability to bear risk.
The last thing I kind of add to that is: The ability to bear risk is an asset.
But the Fed just felt like they couldn't take the risk of having Bear Stearns, which has hooks in so many corners of the financial market, not just go bankrupt but go bankrupt so quickly.
However, other factors, including a broader retrenchment in the willingness of investors to bear risk, difficulties in valuing complex or illiquid financial products, uncertainties about the exposures of major financial institutions to credit losses, and concerns about the weaker outlook for the economy, have also roiled the financial markets in recent months.
He said his firm is financially solid enough to bear the risk of self-insurance.
For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow.
It is understandable why workers like this arrangement: They bear no risk that the investments will perform poorly.
They want to privatize Social Security and let individuals bear the risk.
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They cannot bear to risk such capital losses again, so they stay away from equities and over-weight their portfolios with Treasury bonds and other conventional fixed income securities where they naively believe they cannot lose principal.
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But dismissing the case, Judge Andrew Keyser QC the company had been the third and final link in a contractual chain and it would be wrong to make the householders bear the risk of the money paid by Zurich "disappearing in Rok's hands".
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I'm patient, but patience is a heavy cross to bear while systemic risk permeates the air.
Taxpayers already bear the default risk on these loans, which are made without regard to credit history.
As a result, software houses bear all the risk if, as is usual, a project takes longer than planned.
And bringing the implicit guarantee of other sovereigns to bear against the risk of redenomination would create new problems.
Final-salary schemes were closed to new members, who were switched into defined contribution (DC) schemes, in which employees bear the investment risk.
Individuals may have different preferences as to how much risk they are prepared to bear in pursuit of the pleasures of the flesh.
Though Millennials could bear the most risk in investment at their age, a survey by the Investment Company Institute reveals that fewer Gen Y investors are willing to take big financial risks, as compared to Gen X investors or their parents.
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But in a regulated environment, ratepayers are the investors, and they bear much of that risk.
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Age-based models assume all young investors have a high risk tolerance and can emotionally handle bear markets.
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Sitting next to Serge Milman in Broadway's trading room is Steven Girden, 36, a former o-t-c marketmaker at Bear, Stearns' risk arbitrage desk.
The most important thing to remember is that when it comes to risk, willingness and ability to bear it are not the same thing.
Bear Stearns said its risk exposures are moderate and well-controlled.
In my view a board of directors of a huge financial institution is derelict if it does not insist that its CEO bear full responsibility for risk control.
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