It finds that banks with boards of directors independent from
management take less risk.
Not exact matches
For his master's thesis on investment
management, Jon showed how university endowments can generate more wealth (and
take on
less risk) by adopting low - cost investment strategies.
My money
management rules were as follows: (1) Never
risk more than half as much as the reasonable potential reward (e.g., don't
risk more than 10 pips if your reasonable
take profit point is
less than 20 pips), and (2) never
risk on any one trade an amount that would draw down your total trading capital by more than 10 % (that's my «make sure you don't blow out your account» rule — I'm fairly confident of my ability to avoid putting on 10 losing trades in a row, trading as I do as a scalper and short term swing trader).
rather than focusing on the fundamentals of a business, investors can
take a potentially false sense of security from the belief
management knows what it is doing and will sort things out or that if high profile investors have bought shares in the company the
risks must be
less than they appear.