Sentences with phrase «clients are risk averse»

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Clients are incredibly risk averse, especially when working with someone for the first time.

To highlight the differences in how men and women approach their financial commitments, research conducted last year by the Barclays Wealth Female Client Group showed that wealthy women, across the world, were less risk averse than men when it came to their investments.

As a case in point, my most conservative client — a gentleman so risk averse that even the possibility of a 10 % peak - to - trough loss was anathema to him — informed me in January that he would be closing his accounts with me because I refused to aggressively buy tech stocks and Bitcoin on his behalf.

You won't make as much in terms of commissions (20 basis points per year vs 5 % upfront and 0.5 % in trailers) but your risk averse clients will be far better served.

After determining whether you are in fact a very risk averse conservative investor or a highly risk tolerant «aggressive growth» investor, or a balanced investor halfway between these extremes, an adviser would generally try to match the client risk profile to the stated long - term investment goals; then he or she would find the investment solutions that will achieve those goals without subjecting the investor to more risk than they're equipped to tolerate.

While firms are not equally risk positive or averse, a firm's willingness to accept risk provides a useful litmus test that can help instruct the client whether it has realistically assessed the strength of the case.

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.

In the past, risk - averse firms have looked to minimize compliance and legal risks by prohibiting text messaging, but this is not only unsustainable for a workplace which continues to grow more mobile, it limits how and where advisors communicate with clients.

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Even when a trial has excellent prospects, a risk - averse client may be scared into early settlement.

Your niche areas might be in specific industries, types of transactions, client type (think: busy, risk - averse entrepreneur; analytical CFO; physiotherapists who rehabilitate the injured) or even a convenient under - served geographic location if you're a general practitioner.

When the very notion of accessing software applications on the cloud hit the legal profession — let alone cloud - based data storage and retrieval — most law firms reacted in a predictably risk - averse manner: That's interesting, but what is the data security exposure to the firm, the confidentiality risks to clients, the liability insurance coverage implications?

Whether in litigation or transactions, there are repeatable steps on the critical path to success and excess steps that may be deemed helpful or necessary by risk - averse lawyers, but are not statistically relevant to risk - taking clients.

Cue additional clichés: lawyers are risk averse; clients don't want this; partners can't understand AI and so on.

The clients focusing on shadow hours are risk - averse, and law firms could develop special fee arrangements to cater for these kind of clients.

«Retail banks are risk averse and geared toward a different set of clients than what is typically asked for from an exchange,» Shtylman told PaymentsSource.