Sentences with phrase «less market exposure»

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As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

And Rogers should feel less pain as customers transition to VoIP, given their lower exposure to the landline voice market.

Moody's Investors Service maintained its ratings for Desjardins but said the transaction creates risks, mainly because of the increased exposure to the high - risk Ontario personal auto insurance market, which will make its insurance operations «a less predictable source of earnings.»

Investors without private market exposure are also running meaningful concentration risk, not just in terms of the number of public companies (less than 4,000) relative to private companies (more than 6 million), but because publicly traded companies are now more highly concentrated within certain industries as a result of strategic M&A.

Anecdotally, it appears market participants may be using relatively more liquid instruments to hedge exposures in other less liquid market segments, perhaps unintentionally contributing to increased correlation across markets.

For investors who want to maintain equity exposure but are concerned about overall equity market volatility, less volatile dividend stocks may offer an attractive alternative.

So I guess what I would say is if you are going to use some sort of market timing type system, at least to, you know, grade your exposure to more bullish, to less bullish, be honest with yourself.

The slowdown is most pronounced for funds with U.S. and Europe equity exposure, and less so for other non-U.S. categories, including emerging markets (EM) and EAFE.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

It steadily reduces your exposure to risky equities to reflect how you've ever less time left to recover from stock market falls.

In contrast, the professional managers that operate downstream of individual investor flows, and that manage the various investment vehicles that provide those investors with equity exposure, probably exert less control over the market's absolute valuation.

«The antiseptic effect of triclosan depends on its exposure concentration and time; however, commercial antibacterial soaps on the market generally contain less than 0.3 % triclosan and washing hands takes only a few seconds.»

AME is a leader in the publishing and book marketing industries and has developed some of the most cutting - edge book marketing campaigns available today, including those specifically designed to promote and grow a business, and our latest addition, a Build Your Own program that can jumpstart your exposure for less than $ 600!

The offer Amazon makes would be a decent one if Amazon still controlled 80 - 90 % of the ebook market but when you know that Amazon controls less than 60 % in some markets and even in the US, its dominance is not what it used to be, allowing the company exclusivity sounds like a recipe for smaller sales and reduced exposure.

While our investment stance remains modestly constructive on the basis of valuation, we have somewhat less exposure to market fluctuations than we had a couple of weeks ago when prices were extraordinarily compressed.

Those who want to add more or less short term exposure to the market can do so easily with high beta sector ETFs.

Until the developed stock markets retreat from record levels of valuation, we expect to have less portfolio exposure to equities going forward and more exposure to event driven situations such as liquidations and reorganizations that are not so dependent on the vicissitudes of the stock market for their investment return.

The portfolio typically has between 10 — 30 total positions with greater than 90 % exposure focused in options on the broad market and less than 10 % in options on individual stocks.

They've got a lot less in the US and a lot more emerging markets exposure than their peers, a lot smaller market cap, higher dividends, lower p / e.

Investors who are building their own portfolios might feel there is less risk these days, but they should remember that as the market's weighting to commodities goes down, the exposure to banks is getting even higher.

It also invests in emerging markets, which involve unique risks, such as exposure to economies less diverse and mature than the US or other more established foreign markets.

Same goes for Smart Beta ETFs that attempt to beat the market by buying more of some stocks and less of others relative to the index based on a handful of idiosyncratic factor exposures.

As a rule, once you've established a sufficiently diversified portfolio (if you haven't, the first step in risk management is to shut down your diversifiable risk), it's then optimal to vary your exposure to market risk more or less proportionally with the market's expected return / risk ratio.

Over the long run, a risk parity strategy (which is to say, generally being long both risky and less risky assets) is a highly effective way to provide diversified exposure through the ongoing ebb and flow of market cycles.

Investors who buy a minimum volatility fund may be looking to harness the power of factors to seek less risk while maintaining market exposure.

As a result of this decreased net market exposure, Montaka carries significantly less market risk compared to many of its typical equity fund peers.

Multi-cap Investments include exposure to all market caps, including small and medium capitalization («cap») stocks that generally have a higher risk of business failure, lesser liquidity and greater volatility in market price.

Gaining exposure to the less popular, less prolific issuers, not widely viewed as safe harbors in a volatile world, also allows long - term investors to capitalize on market inefficiencies.

Designed to provide equity exposure to developed markets (ex-US) with potentially less volatility over a complete market cycle than traditional capitalization - weighted indices

Over the last 10 years, it led investors to own funds that had more exposure to stocks when stocks were doing well and funds with less exposure to stocks in down markets.

Designed to provide equity exposure to global small cap markets with potentially less volatility over a complete market cycle than traditional capitalization - weighted indices

Unfortunately, the BMO International Equity ETF has additional exposure to our stock market making it less attractive to Canadian investors.

And in a bear market, those with less exposure to the market will crow.

Most of the current problems exist in exotic parts of the bond market; average retail investors don't have much exposure to the problems there, but only less - experienced institutional investors.

Inevitably, much of this exposure is European, so emerging / frontier market exposure is often far less meaningful than the journos cite / imply — this can be particularly true of consumer plays (a case of hacks & readers deserving each other).

As a result, I believe it makes sense to increase your equity exposure a little compared to what you might have done when bonds were more attractive, and to balance that by choosing conservative stocks that carry less risk than the overall market.

After this sale my overall exposure to the market is less than 50 %, i.e. cash is greater than 50 %, even with the several small additions to my portfolio this Fall.

One simple way to reduce the risk of a market decline is to reduce your equity exposure in favor of less risky investments.

By keeping my currency exposure to both the US and the Eurozone I at least have some protection (for some of my assets) in the worlds two biggest economies plus to a lesser extend other developed / emerging markets.

The Fund provides exposure to the shorter duration segment of the high - yield bond market, investing primarily in investments with an expected duration profile of three years or less.

They also allow for a more diversified, less volatile portfolio with decreased market exposure.

In keeping with Montier's absolute value philosophy, we investigated several dynamic allocation strategies based on reducing or eliminating exposure to markets as they get more or less expensive, using the real earnings yield as our yardstick.

If you have less than a 3 year time horizon, you should have no stock market exposure.

There is upside to companies with emerging market exposure in smart phones and playing the trend through the chip manufacturers may carry less risk from the rollout and success of particular products like that of mobile players like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).

In this webinar, sponsored by Scotia iTRADE, and presented by Bianca Baumann, attendees will learn about how Canada makes up less than 5 % of global equity markets yet most Canadian investors have much more domestic equity exposure than that and thus are heavily exposed to volatile sectors like materials and energy.

For investors who want to maintain equity exposure but are concerned about overall equity market volatility, less volatile dividend stocks may offer an attractive alternative.

Additional risks include exposure to less developed or less efficient trading markets; social, political or economic instability; fluctuations in foreign currencies or currency redenomination; potential for default on sovereign debt; nationalization or expropriation of assets; settlement, custodial or other operational risks; and less stringent auditing and legal standards.

«CLIX's 50 % net exposure to the equity markets may result in less volatility than typical long - only equity strategies.»

ProShares leveraged and inverse ETFs are designed for knowledgeable investors who seek to magnify gains or get a target level of exposure for less cash (leveraged), or to profit from or hedge against a market decline (inverse).

iPath ETNs offer exposure to the returns of market benchmarks, less investor fees and costs, with exchange - traded accessibility.