Sentences with phrase «investors take more risks»

So as more seed investors take more risks, early - stage seed funding becomes more prevalent, plentiful and easier to find.

Investors took more risk because they thought the Fed would protect them, and so they leveraged up on investments at narrow spreads over risk - free investments in order to meet return targets.

Not exact matches

«It's hard to see investors willing to take increasing risk ahead of a couple more weeks of trade discussions and negotiations to come,» said Matthew Miskin, market strategist at John Hancock Investments in Boston.

One of Cramer's top rules for young investors is that they should take more risks.

For one, investors are going to have to get comfortable taking on more risk in their equity portfolios by buying stocks at higher valuations.

And that will require investors to adjust their strategy and their expectations henceforward — by paying more for equities, taking on more risk with fixed income and socking away more than they used to.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

Kramer is concerned that creeping gamification will cause investors to take on more risk than they should.

Investors who need more income from their portfolios have no option other than taking on more risk.

According a survey from Legg Mason, 78 % of millennial investors plan to take on more risk this year.

Thus, the greater reward - risk appears skewed to the downside in the near - term as weaker results may mobilize investors to take the potential impact more seriously.»

The bottom line is that investors should consider taking more risk in their portfolio.

The Department concludes that it can best protect the interests of retirement investors in receiving sound advice, provide greater certainty to the public and regulated parties, and minimize the risk of unnecessary disruption by taking a more balanced approach than simply granting a flat delay of fiduciary status and all associated obligations for a protracted period.

«These investors tend to be relatively happy to take an element of risk and they are more able to be flexible with investments compared to corporate investors,» Liam Bailey, research director for Knight Frank told Quartz.

The logic being that the current investors and founders have more inside knowledge of the company performance and dynamics than a brand new investor and thus if the new investor is going to «pay up» they shouldn't take all of the pricing risk in the deal.

By taking on more risk as an equity investor, one can economically participate in a company's value creation activities providing an enhanced return profile relative to a company's debt offerings.

That gives today's investors even more reason to believe it will be able to continue to reward its shareholders with cash for the financial risks they take by owning the business.

The world has been awash in liquidity for a decade investors have been awarded for taking more risk.

For example, some investors may have taken on more risk in their portfolios in recent years by moving into lower - quality bonds or dividend stocks, in an attempt to generate additional yield.

While private pension funds and mutual funds often steer stock markets in places like the United States, markets in China are more often swayed by amateur investors and well - heeled individuals willing to take big risks.

In another sign investors were willing to take more risks, gold lost $ 15.50, or 1.1 percent, to $ 1,335.70 an ounce.

But if you're finding a cold shoulder to all of that, look at the alternative of what it will take to continue to stay in business and remove risk to become more attractive to investors later on.

Potenza: As the yield curve flattens, investors get less compensation for moving further out on the curve and taking on more duration risk.

Based on the belief that there's no point investing into fast growth startups without a culture in which they could grow, we served as both fund and catalyst to stimulate a lot more risk taking from both entrepreneurs and investors.

Given the still very oversold condition of the market, investors may become sufficiently bold to take on more risk.

Sizemore considers leveraged ETFs «more of a gambling tool that encourage Mom and Pop investors to take risks they can't afford.»

Prospect theory also explains why investors hold onto losing stocks: people often take more risks to avoid losses than to realize gains.

To get the same yield levels, then, investors need to take on more risk.

According to a June survey from Legg Mason, nearly 80 % of millennial investors plan to take on more risk this year, with 66 % of them expressing an interest in equities.

The more traditional approach, which developed out of mean variance analysis some fifty years ago, tailors an individual's portfolio to his or her age, young investors should take more risk with stocks, and attitudes toward risk, conservative investors should hold more cash.

The way the story goes is that an extended period of calm with steady growth and no recessions, nothing to make you nervous, makes investors less risk - averse, so more risk taking, and not just investors, but their financial intermediaries.

Taking it from an investor perspective (not me, angels) I think it's totally unfair to see early angels invest, take more risk, help you get to the next level through both sweat & money, and then pay a higher price because the round had a convertible note with no cap.

An investor saving for retirement may be comfortable taking on more risk than an investor saving for a down payment.

However, we took note of comments from famed investor Jeff Gundlach; that it is wrong to believe U.S bonds are more attractive than those from Europe and Japan because of currency risk.

Accredited investors are viewed as more sophisticated investors, capable of taking on the risk that some securities present.

This very low market volatility can lead investors to take on more risk, and in a period of still relatively low interest rates, to «reach for yield» — that is, buy riskier assets than one would otherwise, in order to achieve a desired profit or savings goal.

This poses a dilemma for investors: Accept lower returns or dial up risk by taking more equity, credit and interest rate exposure.

«Many investors expected a more lengthy FDA review process of the JCAR015 trial (and potentially other CAR - T programs) and feared that a higher - degree regulatory scrutiny could increase the development risk of CAR T cell,» Leerink Research said in a note co-authored by analysts Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., Jonathan Chang, Ph.D., and Varun Kumar, Ph.D. «While it may take several weeks to reopen all clinical sites of the ROCKET trial, we believe the trial shouldn't be delayed by more than ~ 3 months.»

By revealing them, investors would have been better informed of the risks the bank was taking, and more able to test the assertions of management that the situation was under control.

Action needs to be taken now to address the risks of any non-competitive market stifling regulations and a much more active approach should be taken by all stakeholders to increase the awareness and financial literacy of the funding opportunities that exist for small to medium - sized businesses and participation opportunities that exist for investors.

Further, their portfolio building interface allows investors to take more appropriate risk, rather than just buy a handful of securities.

«You have to force other investors to take more risk.

For the investor willing to take on slightly more risk for slightly more yield, SLQD is a very attractive option.

In order words, an investor may be taking on more risk than needed to achieve a given level of return.

The longer it takes for expansionary fiscal policies to emerge, the more likely for financial conditions to ease as investors pare expectations of near - term policy tightening due to limited risk tolerance amid central bank inaction.

If market internals improve, we'll take a signal that investors have shifted back to risk - seeking, and that would ease our near - term concerns, but wouldn't materially change our expectations for a market loss on the order of 50 % or more over the completion of the current cycle.

There may have been a financial stability case for raising rates six or nine months ago, as low interest rates were encouraging investors to take more risks and businesses to borrow money and engage in financial engineering.

Faced with a shortfall between lifestyle plans and wealth accumulation, some investors consider options like delaying retirement or taking on more investment risk in an attempt to boost returns.

Instead, Koesterich says that investors are looking for ways to diversify equity risk, and the historical diversifier of choice — bonds — is increasingly correlated to equity, and should become more so as monetary policy evolves and rate hikes take place.

I think most investors would be wise to take a more conservative posture at this point, and be willing to give up some upside for a while... just depends on how much relative performance risk you can stomach.