Sentences with phrase «measured against the downside»

NTU assesses equities based on their risk / reward ratio as upside potential needs to always be measured against the downside risk.

Not exact matches

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

Sortino ratio measures the mutual fund performance against the downside deviation.

That means some pretty decent premiums offering a measure of downside protection if you sell covered calls against the QQQ.

So what we offer above all else is a measure of protection against downside risk.