Sentences with phrase «risk against the backdrop»

When it comes to valuations, U.S. and emerging market credit spreads reached post-crisis tights in late 2017, reflecting low default risks against a backdrop of solid global growth.

In the final analysis, we believe investors are being paid to take equity risk against the backdrop of low rates.

In the final analysis, however, we believe investors are being paid to take equity risk against the backdrop of low rates.

In the final analysis, we believe investors are being paid to take equity risk against the backdrop of low rates.

We see an opportunity in MBS to add income while decreasing credit risk against a backdrop of ever - tighter corporate bond spreads.

Not exact matches

We prefer to take economic risk through equities rather than credit against a backdrop of low absolute yields, tights spreads and rising rates.

Against this backdrop, Franklin Templeton's senior investment leaders discuss where they see opportunities and risks ahead.

Against this backdrop, Governing Council decided to leave our key policy interest rate unchanged, as we judged that the balance of risks at present are still within the zone for which the current policy setting remains appropriate.

We prefer U.S. investment grade bonds against this backdrop of reduced compensation for credit risk.

These risks are playing out against a backdrop of asset prices propped up by years of plentiful liquidity.

Historically, such widespread unrest would have caused global oil prices to march higher, but instead of rising against the backdrop of heightened geopolitical risks, Brent, the global price benchmark, has recently sunk below $ 100 a barrel.

-- Financial institutions have actively extended loans at low interest rates, particularly to «middle - risk firms» against the backdrop of the effects of intensified lending competition under chronic stress and monetary easing.

Against this backdrop, the global cycle expansion remains intact in our base case — although we are mindful of the potential risks.

«While linked to contractual arrangements, the ACCC is interested in the timing and notice of the cuts, the period in which farmers have been given to consider their options and all of this against the backdrop of supply arrangements that place a lot of risk on farmers.»

In light of the considerable uncertainty around the economic and fiscal outlook, including the risks posed to economic recovery by ongoing financial tensions in the eurozone and against the backdrop of a still large structural budget deficit and high and rising government debt, the Negative Outlook indicates a slightly greater than 50 % chance of a downgrade over a two - year horizon.»

Those concerns, emerging against a backdrop of global competition and economic dislocation, gained rhetorical force and political momentum with the 1983 federal report A Nation at Risk.

The game between them, alternately playful and deliciously sexy, is set against a backdrop of a war among members of the emotionless Psy Council, a war that puts the entire SnowDancer pack at risk.

While earnings will doubtless rise significantly in 2018, any disappointment will occur against a backdrop of real risks, particularly the risk of tighter monetary and financial conditions.

We prefer to take economic risk through equities rather than credit against a backdrop of low absolute yields, tights spreads and rising rates.

Against this backdrop, Franklin Templeton's senior investment leaders discuss where they see opportunities and risks ahead.

Against this economic backdrop, we believe developed market stocks will advance and investors will be rewarded for moving up the risk spectrum into equities, credit and alternative asset classes.

We prefer U.S. investment grade bonds against this backdrop of reduced compensation for credit risk.

«Notably, the Bank of Canada perceives the risk of an unwinding of household imbalances as still low and against a strengthening economic backdrop is expected to raise the overnight rate in small, incremental hikes beginning in mid-2015,» Cooper said.

The risk of trade restrictions against the backdrop of less central bank liquidity is contributing to higher volatility this year.

We prefer U.S. investment grade bonds against this backdrop of reduced compensation for credit risk but are neutral on U.S. high yield.

The calls has come against the backdrop of increasing instances of climate - induced disasters in Nepal.The experts, during deliberations on «Climate Risk Management Experts Working Group Meeting» September 8 - 9, urged [continue reading...]

As we discussed in an earlier article on this blog, against the backdrop of hardening and expanding international business and human rights standards and norms, there is increasingly a risk of litigation being commenced against Canadian companies for overseas human rights violations.

Against a backdrop of heightened regulatory and reputational concerns, more than one - third (35 %) of all risk and compliance professionals surveyed expect their organization's bribery and corruption risks to increase in 2017, and more than half (57 %) expect them to persist at the same levels as last year.

It is against this rapidly changing backdrop that corporate counsel are challenged to identify ways to contain spend, mitigate risk, take on ever - increasing responsibility, manage a legal supply chain, defend the enterprise and simultaneously advance its business agenda within established risk parameters and the bounds of the law, and proactively identify — and defuse — problems before they result in legal exposure.