Sentences with phrase «being a risk averse does»

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In other words, a risk - averse Pentagon is an ineffective Pentagon, and some cost overruns should be embraced as the cost of doing business.

Someone who is «risk averse» doesn't like risks.

Default - free money does not act as an inferior «hot potato» when investors are risk - averse.

To me, having participated in numerous credit comnitees, it is very clear that entrepreneus don't stop investing because they became more risk averse.

You have to be as risk averse as retirees so that you don't lose a part of your funds that you are relying on for a comfortable post retirement life.

It doesn't help that lawyers are the most risk - averse group on the planet, so as time goes on it is less likely that you'll want to leave.

Risk - averse audit committees are now likely to take a closer look at supplier payments to ensure practices are in line with policies and that checks and balances are doing their job.

Arsenal is run by a risk averse billionaire who is happy to keep Wenger in a job as he doesn't want to spend the extra money on a new regime.

He is risk - averse with the football in his hands, but didn't put the Bills in bad situations.

Tony wasn't risk averse, he WOULD throw AT Dez and expect Dez to get the ball... Dak simply doesn't have that confidence.

I get that there's a logic behind the more risk - averse version of Keith, but despite the «0» I don't think it serves him well.

«It does work out in our favor that people are risk averse because it means on average we're going to be paying people less.»

DS: When we think about the work we did in opening up teacher preparation to non-schools of education, inevitably the reaction was quite strong from the existing schools of education; but it was even cautious from some of those institutions that one might have thought would be less risk - averse.

In previous work, we demonstrated that because most teachers are somewhat risk averse and likely will not work under a single retirement plan for their entire careers, entering teachers should strongly prefer earning retirement benefits more evenly than they do under current backloaded plans.

This isn't a deliberate ploy to make girls more risk - averse than boys, but that doesn't mean it's not happening.

David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University and an expert on civil liberties, says that helping people only when it is cost - free and risk - averse to do so will never be a solution to mass incarceration.

But I'm not risk averse, I've already put quite a lot into this and I have plenty of other more commercially viable projects to follow up with, so I think I might just helldamnit do it any way.

Major publishers are notoriously risk averse and rarely do they experiment with alternative distribution models in a meaningful way.

Finally, we have underperformed this roaring bull market for the same reasons we always do: we remain risk averse value investors and will never own what we perceive to be expensive stocks in the hope that they could somehow rise even higher.

While you're not going to get rich investing with Prodigy Finance they do have a 99 % repayment rate, making this investment appealing to the risk averse.

But is there a chance that given the extreme lack of risk taking and lending by banks that even healthy companies may cut dividends simply as a risk management mechanism to save capital in case their banks / debt holders are so risk averse that they do not roll over existing debt?

There's psychological evidence that suggests it's human nature to become more risk averse after a series of losing trades and less risk averse after a series of winning trades, but that doesn't mean the risk of any one trade becomes more or less simply because you lost or won on your previous trade.

After you win a few trades you have a tendency to become over-confident... and I should stress that there's nothing inherently wrong with you if you do this or have done it; it's actually human nature to become less risk averse after winning a trade or multiple trades.

«Even though you might be somewhat more risk - averse, does the carry trade still exist, is it still working?

In part II, you were informed that value investing is a risk - averse strategy that seeks to identify undervalued assets — bargains — that offer margins of safety based on the Dhandho - mantra: «Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.»

If you are risk averse and prefer «guarantees» and don't mind paying the high cost then permanent insurance might work for you.

Be risk averse but don't be afraid to make mistakes or take an occasional losBe risk averse but don't be afraid to make mistakes or take an occasional losbe afraid to make mistakes or take an occasional loss.

, so its understandable that you're risk averse (how do you like those TBill yields btw?)

I'm not suggesting my portfolio's some absolute return tail - risk hedged uber - vehicle (though I'm not averse to all that, resources permitting), I really mean it in the old - fashioned sense (& purpose) of a hedge fund — I worry as much about preserving my wealth, as I do about increasing my wealth.

The US does benefit from its reserve currency status (just as Japan benefits from a large domestic & risk - averse savings pool), but a higher US savings rate will be desirable (& probably necessary).

I think one thing all of us can take away from this mess is that being a little conservatism and risk averse doesn't hurt when making financial decisions.

Some people can't sleep with their money doing roller coaster rides, and then you need to be more conservative / risk - averse.

Technology has been a hot sector, but how does a value investor, who traditionally is risk - averse, participate in this growing sector?

Banks are risk - averse, and unsecured personal loans, which don't require you to put up collateral, don't provide them the same recourse that secured loans do.

But at the same time, don't be so averse to risk that you think the stock market is fraught with risk and that any investment will fail (I know the crash of 2008 has NOT been forgotten).

Getting a fixed rate loan is crucial for risk - averse people who don't want their monthly payments to change.

If you're risk averse, you likely don't want to be in debt more than you have to.

3) The state insurance regulators did a better job than the Federal banking regulators — the state regulators did not get captured by those that they regulated, and were more natively risk averse, which is the way regulators should be.

This is what I think people get so wrong about this period for Nintendo: the huge audience it found itself addressing did not make the firm more risk - averse, but actually more experimental.

It's rare that bluechip artists gamble in internal institutional politics and rarer that they do so together, so it will be noticed by the typically risk - averse museum world.

If you know there is some effect of carbon emissions (and CFCs, etc.) on climate, and are unclear how to reverse the effects later on, then the risk - averse thing to do is limit greenhouse gas emissions until more is known.

The reason to bring this up, is not to dismiss the local risks, but to ensure that we don't become so risk averse that we become paralyzed and can not make the difficult energy transition required to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Since lawyers tend to be risk averse, many who seek alternative careers do so while still employed as an attorney.

This resulted in a slow process, largely under the radar, involving lot of change management in a sector that is risk averse and has been doing things the same way for literally almost 200 years.

Even if the law or intent of the Quebec law is not to forbid e.g. someone employed by the municipality from dressing as Bonhomme, it's not unreasonable to wonder about the consequences of the law which may extend beyond the intent of the law especially if organizations or people are risk - averse and haven't paid for legal opinions to know exactly what they can and can't do.

I don't dispute the value of focus, but I would leave a little room for the risk averse in advising to bet the farm, or the law practice, on a narrow estimate of what will turn out to be appealing to (potential) clients.

Katie: That tends to be what I hear from people so I wasn't going to do it until a couple of milestones had been met, until I knew that I had certain amount of saving goals achieved that I knew I could survive for a certain period of time even if there was no income coming in because again, I tend to be very risk averse and I know that there's certainly no guarantees in anything but I wanted to put myself in the best possible position to be able to grow the practice slowly and the way that I wanted to because I also wanted to be in a position where I could be very particular about the types of cases that I wanted to take.

Lawyers are extremely risk averse and tend to follow what other lawyers do, or what they were taught when they were first licensed.

Whether we call these software programs «predictive coding,» «technology - assisted review» or something else entirely, how do you know that they are right for you as a cautious and risk - averse in - house lawyer?

But because the present U.S. regulatory scheme does not allow the industry to be structured the way it is, it has failed to innovate — stagnating over the last 50 years in customer experience due to its weak cost - cutting incentives, making it averse to risk.