Sentences with phrase «risk averse by»

I'm a little more risk averse by nature so I really wanted to make sure that I believed in the opportunity, I believed in the idea, I believed in my co-founder enough for the two of us to work side by side.

He added: «The government should be bolder and less risk averse by tackling the criteria for ODA so that more funding goes to the world's poorest people and the poorest countries, and less to the European neighbourhood.

Be risk averse by knowing what you're getting into.

Not exact matches

The group of Canadian businesses with the most potential for growth are being held back by our risk - averse financial environment.

Ford's (F) miracle worker saved the company without resorting to bankruptcy or bailouts by doing what previous leaders had tried and failed to do: change Ford's risk - averse, reality - denying, CYA - based culture.

The market chaos of the past four years has left them risk averse and consumed by short - term stock volatility.

Marijuana companies have largely dealt with the hazy legality by listing on the smaller, less risk averse exchange.

A 2011 study by Deloitte found Canadian executives to be far more risk - averse than their U.S. counterparts.

«Innovation's a big part of our whole corporate culture and part of what helps differentiate us,» says Carlson, pointing out that oil and gas companies can be risk - averse and sometimes late to exploit opportunities presented by technical advances.

Traditionally, this population has been underserved by an existing lending process that is too slow, manual and risk - averse to invest in small businesses.

Humans are risk - averse by nature — we need a push to go for new opportunities.

«Recessions are caused by the build up of imbalances and some sort of event or policy change that causes investors, consumers, businesses and regulators to become more risk averse.»

The discussion explored how women are challenged by pay inequity, the perception of being too ambitious and by company policies and culture that leave many women who are mothers averse to taking risks.

By its very nature, B2B necessitates a style of communication that is more risk - averse, one that has the potential to cater to all types of people and avoid alienating or offending anyone.

People are also risk averse and are terrified at any change that leaves them open to having their lives destroyed by a medical emergency.

Also not risk - averse, his first goal was to add value to his father's catch by building a cold - water tank house.

Arsenal is run by a risk averse billionaire who is happy to keep Wenger in a job as he doesn't want to spend the extra money on a new regime.

He is very risk averse when it comes to purchases unless he's a very young player or a proven world - class player... anything in between and he'll default to what he has, unless his hand is forced by way of injury.

And anyone who knows her knows that Cara is, by nature, one of the most risk - averse people on earth.

Political parties are, by and large, averse to taking electoral risks.

To highlight the differences in how men and women approach their financial commitments, research conducted last year by the Barclays Wealth Female Client Group showed that wealthy women, across the world, were less risk averse than men when it came to their investments.

Globally any currency is only worth as much as people value it on the Foreign Exchange Market, so the global success of a state - sponsored cryptocurrency may be crippled by risk - averse speculators.

People may be less inclined to accept mistakes made by machines than humans, and research has shown that people are more risk - averse when it comes to risks that they can't control.

Learning from the Octopus By Rafe Sagarin The riotously biodiverse tide pools of California's central coast do not bear much resemblance to the risk - averse halls of Washington, D.C., but marine ecologist Rafe Sagarin, who has made a close study of both, hopes to change that.

Vinnie Mirchandani on disruptive trends and economics in technology A $ 600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a radical departure for the risk - averse intelligence community.

There's a reason for that, as the ever more risk - averse studios have retreated into formulaic action movies and by - the - numbers superhero franchises, of which there are now a dizzying amount.

And yet here comes «Surrogates,» a slick sci - fi number that presents a future in which flawless, hot - bodied, chicly dressed synthetic humans do the everyday living / working / playing, their every action neurally controlled by their real - human counterparts, a risk - averse population of shut - ins who've gone to seed.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeaby the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeaby Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeaBy Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

Due to this, they've been called risk averse, they've been criticized for clinging to the Worms franchise, so of course their upcoming Worms revamp, Worms: Revolution, may be met with cynicism by some.

Despite our increasingly risk ‑ averse culture and the red tape and admin faced by the minority of schools that choose the DIY approach to school trip planning, there is no evidence that the number of school trips is decreasing.

However, arbitrators and mediators, who must be approved by both sides, tend to be risk - averse consensus seekers who frown on calls for radical changes to existing provisions.

But it also decreases the value of the benefits received by risk - averse employees, which needs to be taken into account when evaluating the effect of the policy change on benefits.

This is also the thesis of Tim Gill's No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society, commissioned by the British branch of the Lisbon - based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Second, the district as an operator managing these schools is enormously risk - averse and pre-occupied by previous investments.

It improves the Corolla's torsional rigidity by 60 per cent, claims Toyota, which together with the all - new suspension gives the sleek hatch the kind of engaging driver dynamics that may attract a different audience — not just risk averse buyers who want a return on their investment.

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

Harder to land an agent (many of whom won't even respond to queries they aren't interested in anymore); agents are flooded by queries; submissions from agents take much longer to be evaluated by editors; publishers are much more risk - averse and seemingly chasing after the same trends.

Having to seek story approval and take endless notes from fickle, risk - averse creative execs (among others) who know nothing about the art of storytelling has left me creatively frustrated, and I find the freedom offered by the burgeoning frontier of self - publishing — the opportunity to shift the balance of power back in the writer's favor — fairly irresistible for all the reasons Mr. Howey propounds above.

U.S. Treasury's, backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, also appeal to risk - averse investors.

I have a friend who is very risk - averse, by self admission.

By my standards he is too much risk averse for his own good.

After 9 years of managing Baupost, he decided to impart some of his investment wisdom on the world by writing Margin of Safety: Risk Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor.

If you're risk - averse by nature, you may feel much better emotionally by hunkering down almost exclusively in bonds or cash.

But is there a chance that given the extreme lack of risk taking and lending by banks that even healthy companies may cut dividends simply as a risk management mechanism to save capital in case their banks / debt holders are so risk averse that they do not roll over existing debt?

Not surprisingly, CAPM contributed to the rise in use of indexing — assembling a portfolio of shares to mimic a particular market — by risk - averse investors.

Perhaps the problem comes when people who are by nature risk - averse are the ones making decisions about how to market and make available their products which are designed to reduce risk for others.

It's an account, opened by an individual (or with a spouse or partner), through which the owner can buy securities, stocks, bonds, and whatever risky (or risk - averse) investments he or she prefers.

Avoid being a victim of value traps by only investing in net - nets which: Generate revenue, experience NCAV Burn of less than 25 % annually, aren't based in China or if you are risk averse, aren't Chinese, have sold at a price above the current NCAV in the past 5 years, and are not issuing shares.

Which reflects a similar two - tier attitude to risk: In the real world, investors remain risk - averse towards the majority of companies / stocks in the developed world, which face a world beset by surplus capacity & high costs, fragile & uncertain economic growth, an intractable welfare class & an over-stretched and disillusioned middle class, and governments over-burdened by massive debt & future entitlements.

I work in risk management (not financial risks) and am, by practice, very risk averse.