Sentences with phrase «lower than average risk»

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It all has to do with the near explosion of one of China's notorious wealth management product s — pools of allegedly low risk securities that return one average 2 % more than bank deposits.

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

When volatility is average, options prices will typically be a little lower than during a bearish market and that might cause options that are farther out of the money to be priced so low that the risks involved outweigh the profit potential.

Since I prefer to sell short stocks and ETFs as they are bouncing into resistance, rather than on their initial break of support, the stalling action of $ EEM as it bounces into resistance of its 50 - day moving average now presents me with an ideal, low - risk entry point on the short side (click here to learn more about my short selling entry strategy).

Currently, the VIX is trading at about 13, but the 20 - year average is just above 20 or 21, so sitting at lower - than - average levels, it means many investors have become less concerned about risk and maybe a bit too complacent.

The low interest rate environment may also have encouraged a shift in investments towards hedge funds as, in the past, hedge funds have achieved higher average returns than traditionally managed investments, albeit in exchange for greater risk.

UNG is now setting up for an ideal re-entry point that is lower risk than last month's initial buy entry because the ETF has come into intermediate - term support of its 50 - day moving average.

Specifically, the higher negative rating of salespeople is inversely related to a department's tolerance for risk; for example, IT buyers rated 37 % of all salespeople as poor — higher than any other department — while their risk tolerance average was a low 5 %.

Most of our banks earn a mid-teens or better return on equity (ROE), but with lower than average credit risk.

While the average indicator rate on large business variable - rate loans, at 8.0 per cent, is now higher than the corresponding rate for small businesses, the all - up borrowing cost to large business remains lower than for small businesses since customer risk margins for the former are, on average, finer than those for the latter.

Banks with lower than average credit risk also earn less than average on their loans.

The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio constructed of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield higher returns and pose a lower risk than any individual investment found within the portfolio.

But Blomquist notes that local housing costs as a share of median income are far lower than the national average, so Montgomery County «is probably on the low end of the risk spectrum.»

Doses as low as 54 milligrams in an average - sized adult female (far less than a quarter of a teaspoon) can cause an increased risk of phocomelia — a decrease in the size of the upper limbs.

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

They found that people who drink two cups of coffee more than the average consumption rates enjoy a 44 percent lower risk of developing cirrhosis.

Together, households in the 4th and 5th quintile account for only 10 % of the total sample, yet consume 40 % of the total volume of alcohol, with an average apparent consumption above the recommended level for low - risk of harm over the lifetime (i.e. no more than 2 standard drinks / day over the lifetime).

For example, in their study of 64 families, Ferguson and Vanderpool14 found that fathers» average total risk factors were lower at the end of the home visitation program than at the beginning of the program.

It has long been observed that people who develop Parkinson's tend to be more low - key and risk - averse than average, as if their innate dopamine levels have always been on the low side.

Those who were in the most active third of the sample were on average achieving 39 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous activity and were at half the risk of emergency hospital admissions than those in the low active group.

Runners that averaged over 2 and a quarter miles per day were at 95 % lower risk for breast cancer mortality than those that did not meet the current exercise recommendations.

During an average follow - up time of more than seven years, lithium treatment was associated with the lowest risk of rehospitalisation in mental or physical disease, with a risk reduction of about 30 per cent compared with no treatment at all.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

People who ate more seafood than average — at least one serving a week — had a 30 percent lower risk of developing dementia than those who followed a diet relatively low in fish.

«Our findings indicate that sexual minorities living in communities with higher levels of prejudice die sooner than sexual minorities living in low - prejudice communities, and that these effects are independent of established risk factors for mortality, including household income, education, gender, ethnicity, and age, as well as the average income and education level of residents in the communities where the respondents lived,» said Dr. Hatzenbuehler.

Women who know they are at a higher than average risk of breast cancer can also make proactive lifestyle changes to lower their lifetime risk, according to ACS.

Women who have a high cardiovascular fitness in middle age have a risk of developing dementia when older that is almost 90 percent lower than among women in average physical condition, according to a study published in the journal Neurology.

Those who ate more plant - based protein, on the other hand, had a lower - than - average risk of death.

In the lowest category of sodium excretion, with an average of 1.9 grams per day, the percentage of subjects that had CVD events was higher (7.2 percent) than that of the second category (6.8 percent), with average excretion of 3 grams per day, even though the average BMI and percentage of high - risk males was lower in the lowest category.

Among these studies are studies on more than 19,000 children representing of 47,000 patient years of growth hormone treatment; a prospective study of 100 adult growth hormone — deficient patients followed for 1 to 4 years, a study of 910 children treated with growth hormone for 11 years, a study of 32 adults and children followed for up to 40 years treated with growth hormone (average 10.8 years); a study of 180 growth hormone — treated children followed for over 6 years with reduced cancer recurrence risk (RR 0.6); a prospective analysis of 289 growth hormone — deficient adults who, after 5 years of growth hormone therapy, showed lower risk of malignancy (RR 0.25) and decreased risk of myocardial infarction (RR 0.19) and early mortality (RR 0.22) compared with the untreated group.

But to achieve the extraordinary goals such as photo - shoot - ready, super-low body fat or simply faster than average fat loss, while minimizing the risks, I often turn to a stricter cyclical low carb diet for brief peaking programs.

Another study, published in the European Heart Journal, followed almost 20,000 Germans for 10 years and found that those who ate the most chocolate (an average of 7.5 grams a day — or a little more than a quarter of an ounce) had lower blood pressure and a 39 % lower risk of having a heart attack or stroke compared to those who ate the least amount of chocolate (1.7 grams a day).

Risk factors for developing gallstones include sex (more women than men), race (high rates in Native American women), obesity, high caloric intake, estrogens, low fibre intake, gastrointestinal tract diseases, alcohol, certain medications and age (average age is 40 to 50).

The average social cost of the crimes committed by high - risk lottery winners (after adjusting the cost of murders downward) is $ 3,916 lower than for lottery losers, a decrease of more than 35 percent.

Fewer suicides were reported among women in secondary education, which means that the overall risk of suicide for female teachers was 31 per cent lower than the national average for women in England.

Additionally, the report suggests that long hours, paired with low starting pay a limited access to CPD creates a risk of teacher «burn out», with starting salaries for teachers in England 16 per cent lower than the OECD average.

In fact, when dollars are not attached to the students and schools are given staffing positions with average salaries instead of dollars, low - income students often receive less funding than non-disadvantaged students despite the government intent to support at - risk students with extra resources.»

To me, one of the advantages of a proper active investing approach is that you are able to go for stocks with a bit lower risk level than the overall market, rather than be forced to accept the «average» market risk.

Conversely, the average returns tend to be lower than at risk investments such as stocks or real estate due to limitations set by the insurance company (usually represented by a contract fee or a cap, spread, or participation rate on the index allocation selected).

It's one stop shopping for the average investor offering returns linked to the broad market, less work, lower risk than individual companies and low cost.

Purchasing assets for less than their real worth lowers risk and increases the probability of higher than average returns.

Low - risk stocks do better than stocks as a whole because their return is only slightly lower in bull markets and is much better than average in bear markets.

The first item is a recently released report from the Investment Company Institute (the trade group for mutual fund companies) which revealed that the average mutual fund investor's willingness to take risk is lower now than it was two years ago before the market experienced its well publicized unpleasantness.

The idea being that if an individual is already working with an independent advisor, they are likely to have a higher net worth than the average bank customer and present a lower amount of risk when it comes to lending.

Returns of 1 % or less are not impossible for bond investors and with both low interest rates and market fundamentals suggesting stocks will produce below - average returns, taking calculated risks now may be more important than ever.

Now that these bonds have fared so much better than stocks this past decade, we'd expect to have lower allocations to bonds than we had on average since we started these portfolios in early 2002, but we'll still use bond funds to reduce total risk of a crash, and as a parking place to have something to add to stocks when stocks tank again, as they eventually will.

A simple, direct explanation of the low volatility effect is that many investors willingly accept lottery - like risk in pursuit of better - than - average returns.

As a result of this risk transfer, the initial interest rates on a loan may be 0.5 % -2.0 % lower than the average interest rate on a fixed rate loan at that given time.

The rationale behind this technique contends that a portfolio constructed of different kinds of investments will, on average, yield higher returns and pose a lower risk than any individual investment found within the portfolio.