Accepting a somewhat lower IRR may be a small trade-off to make for a lower-risk investment.
If so, energy alternatives might become financially feasible and thus worthy of risk investment.
Never before in the short history of pension asset management have such high-cost, high-risk investment products proliferated pensions.
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Rare are the stocks that are both low-risk investment bets and super achievers.
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Nor have high-risk investment divisions been the only ones to get it wrong.
Legislators are hearing from hedge fund lobbyists and others who profit as these unregulated, high risk investment products gain acceptance.
The firm also lost millions by moving her money into a high-risk investment portfolio without her permission, it has been alleged.
Risk aversion also adds to interest rate costs on short term bank loans, and with Russia considered a risk investment, loan costs inevitably rise.
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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This comes in many forms, such as problem-solving creativity, special knowledge and skills, work experience, and willingness to risk investment capital for promising new enterprises.
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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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Allstate went with a frisky higher-risk investment strategy to boost its returns, and as a result got hammered during the Bad Days, as its still-ailing stock demonstrates.
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But in any business struggling for energy and capital, energy efficiency is often the highest-return, lowest-risk investment available, limited less by technology or economics than by culture and imagination.
The financial collapse in 2008 and subsequent federal bailout plus a string of hearings on the lax oversight and high-risk investment practices that led to it stoked public anger.
"Clearly it brings a level of credibility to what is a high-risk investment profile, given how much work there is to be done and who they're competing against, " he says.
Houses, to the lenders, are a secure low-risk investment.
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In creating this sustainable portfolio, the investor faces three paramount risks: longevity risk, inflation risk, and investment risk.
The company shoulders the risk that investment returns may disappoint, or that its pensioners might live longer than expected.
Do they feel ready to risk an investment to grow their business?
Martin Yokosawa, portfolio manager at the Oberweis Report, believes that investing in small cap stocks is a good way to reduce the risk of investment losses due to corporate corruption.
More importantly, so did the risk of investment management.
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Finally, investing in hedge funds can pose operational risk: risk of investment loss from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or problems with external service providers rather than an unsuccessful investment strategy.
Rather, in my opinion, investors with a primary objective of income should continue to look for income producing strategies that attempt to maximize income potential in a given market environment consistent with their tolerance for risk and investment timeframe.
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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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In our March 2001 alert we identified four categories of risk related to 401(k)s: investment risk, record-keeping risk, employer-business risk and regulatory risk.
The second aspect of investment risk, peculiar to 401(k)s, is the risk that your employer makes a bad choice in determining what investment alternatives to offer employee participants in the plan.
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The High Court judges ruled that shareholders had taken a commercial risk with their investment.
This uncertainty with our employment introduces another element of our ability to accept investment risk.
What about this idea that buying and holding foreign ETFs will reduce your investment risk?
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Generally, there are two ways to mitigate investment risk and still trump the prevailing inflation rate.
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