Conversely, during market crashes (and huge losses), the traders became apathetic and excessively risk-averse.
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Many investors decided to jump, pull the ripcord, and seek shelter in risk-averse trading positions.
Shell-shocked by the 2008 stock market crash, many investors are more risk-averse than they should be.
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For an especially risk-averse retiree, it may allow acceptance of a more risky portfolio.
But the IT department with its risk-averse, slow-moving, heavy-handed culture threatens to torpedo hoped-for productivity.
It can also be that the recession changed clients, and made them more risk-averse.
Here the picture is clear: since the credit crisis began, they have become more risk-averse.
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Such primitive assemblages then divide easily into risk-prone foragers and risk-averse parents and nurses.
Prevention-focused people are more risk-averse, but their work is also more thorough, accurate, and carefully planned.
He says risk-averse investors need not settle for the 4% yield on ten-year government bonds.
But to cast Flacco as a risk-averse game manager wouldn't do his Sunday performance justice.
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European VCs are parsimonious and risk-averse, they complain, compared with the deals of their U.S. counterparts.
They were also found to be more risk-averse and afraid of becoming burdens to their families.
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Third, more banks could go bust if the blockage continues, making investors even more risk-averse.
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He called the USPS doping program was "very conservative, very risk-averse, " Mr. Armstrong said.
Given the lack of investment in the game market, developers will be increasingly risk-averse.
The result is a conservative, risk-averse culture that holds back the innovation that society needs.
We therefore expect Goldman to be more risk-averse in its trading operations over the next few quarters.
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For now, the historical euro risk-averse sanctuary remains at the very short-end of the German yield curve.
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Hiring him would be a risk for athletic directors, which happen to be a very risk-averse breed.
This simple, risk-averse model is built on market niche differentiation that has resulted in accretive dividend yield.
The longer that international investors remain risk-averse, the more attention they are likely to pay to current-account imbalances.
In the past, Wells Fargo has been praised by Buffett and others for its relatively risk-averse business strategy.
Others may not make the leap, or be capable of overcoming an ingrained intransigent inflexible, risk-averse IT culture.
It sounds simple, and it might be in a smaller, less risk-averse organization than Time Warner-owned CNN.
There is also evidence that losses can make investors extremely, irrationally risk-averse exaggerating price falls when a bubble bursts.
Even after Tuesday's rise, 4.09% returns are unlikely to satisfy all but the most risk-averse and cash-rich investors.
When investors are uncertain (risk-averse), they have a preference for holding cash and the price of shares falls.
While the uncertainly of global markets can be difficult to navigate, this is no time to be risk-averse.
Excessively risk-averse, capricious and at times even hostile FDA regulation has made drug development extraordinarily difficult in recent years.
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