Barry Richards, of Paradigm Capital, said the settlement removes the biggest legal risk to the company's business.
Foreign journalists prepared to walk 25km (16 miles) in the snow from the Georgian settlement of Shatali, and risk losing a limb, are invited to join them for the return trip.
There are a number of implications to a NATO withdrawal that leaves no political settlement behind: continued violence, greater risk of terrorism in South Asia and abroad, resource insecurity.
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But without the risk of a dispute-settlement case, other countries would feel free to maintain whatever trade barriers they liked against imports from the recalcitrant country, or even to put up some new ones.
One part of the risk calculus must be: will settlement inspire more resource-diverting class action lawsuits?
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This is why it is now time to risk that leap to a final settlement.
As I spell out in an article in the April 25, 2011 issue of Forbes Magazine, investors in these tobacco-settlement securities may now be holding bonds at risk of default.
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The greatest drag on the bond market, however, is the sheer volume of offerings tied to the tobacco settlement, all carrying the same non-diversifiable risk.
The actual risk of any out-of-pocket settlement by a director is quite low says Stanford University Professor David Larcker, author of Corporate Governance Matters.
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Enforcement will be the real challenge, assuming that all the cumbersome legislation goes forward on financial conglomerates, pensions, new capital-adequacy rules, risk capital for small businesses, clearing and settlement, accounting standards and insolvency rules.
However, following the announcement Thursday of a multi-billion dollar settlement over mortgage servicing, CDS widened (showing perceived greater default risk) by 0.14-0.34%, according to CreditSights.
In the second case, a recent divorcee interviewed financial advisors, seeking assurance that they could invest her divorce settlement and generate a 12% return per year, with minimal risk.
To cut down on the risk of a plaintiff or his lawyers foolishly rejecting a settlement and rolling the dice on a trial, or accepting too little for a big-dollar case, Fields spends most of his time trying to determine whether the parties are aligned in their interests.
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The settlement was industry-wide, regardless of company, thus equalizing the sharing of risk and the benefits of "social" insurance.
"The United States opposes all unilateral actions, including West Bank settlement activity and housing construction in East Jerusalem, as they complicate efforts to resume direct, bilateral negotiations, and risk prejudging the outcome of those negotiations, " deputy spokesman Mark Toner said.
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