Sentences with phrase «risk averse with»

This paper starts by assuming that judges are generally risk averse with respect to reversal, and that they provide opinions when they believe that their work will be reviewed by a higher court.

Walt Disney and Lucasfilm have become risk averse with new directors after a slew of hiring missteps.

Not exact matches

It's worth noting, however, that while investing in companies for their cash distributions is a relatively risk - averse way to grind out returns, it's not necessarily a strategy that will keep pace with the broader market.

Leahy agrees: Personality assessments conducted as part of the Texas A&M University study found that people who are more risk averse and who have more self control were more apt to choose and be successful with the snowball method.

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

Clients are incredibly risk averse, especially when working with someone for the first time.

Desjardins, with $ 212 billion in assets under management, owes its strong performance to solid liquidity, a reflection of its risk - averse business philosophy.

«When I think of «risk averse,» I think, «how comfortable are you with being uncomfortable?»

What's more, he says the training made him less risk averse, replacing gut instincts with quantitative analysis in evaluating challenges.

Finance groups focus on cost - cutting, risk - averse lawyers make the company impossible to do business with, and human resources casts judgment on employees.

Today's risk - averse publishers are increasingly packaging new advancements into established brands because they're comfortable with those titles selling.

Historically, women's low participation in investment activity has been explained away with claims that they are too emotional, too risk averse, or simply too broke to be good investors, none of which is has been proven to be anything more than archaic stereotype.

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

For instance, «avoiding «big company people» isn't going to save you, because the self - same employees who are innovating and taking risks with you today are going to become risk averse and careful once they start failing — and sooner or later, they (and you) will fail,» she warns.

In other words, this kind of research comes with a lot of risk, and Pfizer, it seems, perhaps because of its track record, has become more risk - averse when it comes to neurological diseases.

Those with a risk - averse mindset generally oppose innovating through experimentation, like rapid prototyping or continual iteration.

I think the average Investor (when he is not to risk averse) could replace bonds with an dividend - searching - ETF.

These include difficulties in complying with KYC and AML rules when dealing with digital assets; losing business to less risk - averse companies that are willing to «engage in business or offer products in areas we deem speculative or risky, such as cryptocurrencies;» and (like J.P. Morgan) the potential need to spend large sums while attempting to keep up with shifting technological norms.

So even if you're saving for a long - term goal, if you're more risk - averse you may want to consider a more balanced portfolio with some fixed income investments, And regardless of your time horizon and risk tolerance, even if you're pursuing the most aggressive asset allocation models you may want to consider including a fixed income component to help reduce the overall volatility of your portfolio.

The way the story goes is that an extended period of calm with steady growth and no recessions, nothing to make you nervous, makes investors less risk - averse, so more risk taking, and not just investors, but their financial intermediaries.

Personally, when faced with the same situation and some uncertainty about Roth IRA vs. 401K, I did what any risk averse investor would do.

I'm sympathetic to CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld's case that a sustained lower loonie will entice companies to start new businesses / expand operations in Canada, with a lag; I also agree with Mike Moffatt (professor at Ivey, small businessman in Canada's manufacturing heartland, dodgeball player) when he says that manufacturers in the area are highly risk averse.

Even risk - averse employees tend to like variable pay associated with profit - sharing and employee stock ownership.

Yet, costs associated with innovating in the space and the risk - averse nature of the heavily - regulated sector also means there's an additional imperative to make sure things go smoothly the first time around.

On the other hand, the prospects for the market over shorter portions of the market cycle have very little to do with the level of valuation and much more to do with the risk - seeking or risk - averse inclinations of investors.

Some are more risk - averse and will feel more comfortable with a lower equity allocation and a correspondingly lower return.

Despite the fact that gold has made higher highs for three consecutive quarters, silver simply fails to respond to what has to be considered superlative fundamentals with even the multi-year high in the gold - to - silver - ratio north of 80 failing to attract even the risk averse spreaders.

Fortunately, even though I was swinging for the fences, I was still pretty risk averse and hated to part with my money.

Most Democratic members of Congress couldn't understand it or explain it to a country where most people were not only risk - averse but also happy with their current health care.

However, given that kosher certification is essentially a risk management business, most kosher certifiers are averse to these kinds of situations unless there is a solid explanation for the violations with the prior agency or clear changes that have been made in ownership or management.

Risk - averse audit committees are now likely to take a closer look at supplier payments to ensure practices are in line with policies and that checks and balances are doing their job.

He is risk - averse with the football in his hands, but didn't put the Bills in bad situations.

For a manager as notoriously risk - averse as Rafa Benitez, coming in with 10 games to go must have given him a nosebleed.

You can't just plug and play any of the top QBs into their system and think the results will be the same regardless of whether you take a young, downfield risk - taking passer (Darnold, Allen), a smoother, less athletic passer who is more risk averse (Rosen), or a shorter, arrogant, rhythm QB who throws with anticipation better than any other QB in this class (Mayfield).

But Wenger is surely complicit with being risk averse when it comes to the balance sheet vs squad improvement.

There must be a tendency to take a risk averse, danger limitation approach (at least as far as player fitness is concerned) to this match with home games coming up against Burnley and Hull in the next week.

For the risk - averse and those with less money to invest or who wish to avoid going through the gauntlet of finding bank financing, the advantages of a low - cost franchise are quite appealing.

These included over specification in tenders, an overly risk - averse culture, and an obsession with using restricted procurement procedures.

They are reflective of a wider culture of fear and risk aversion, of a political establishment increasingly concerned with the micromanagement of community life, a process which also affects professionals who increasingly work in a risk - averse manner.

But the memo's main target is clearly Cox, who had been seen as the favorite for the support of Suffolk County GOP chairman John LaValle, who only recently decided to go with a risk - averse open primary.

«I think he's risk averse, and he's afraid to come out with a decision, and we hope he continues to postpone a decision.»

«With the constant talk of investigations swirling around it, it will probably keep things static, because politicians are risk averse,» he said.

Agencies that rely on such measures tend to be «more and more risk - averse, choosing «safe» projects over those» with greater potential for major gain.

To understand why there is a trend amongst conservative white males, the Gallup data was cross-examined with research about the «white male effect» — the idea that white males were either more accepting of risk or less risk averse than the rest of the public.

Traders, on the other hand, are generally less risk averse because they deal with losses every day; they work with large portfolios of stocks tend to look at the long - term, bigger picture, rather than focusing too much on individual, day - to - day ups and downs.

Men are slightly less risk - averse, it seems, with 14 % exploring other uses for their office, 9 % trying the conference room, and 9 % investigating what else the storage room has to offer.

Risk - averse studios will be pondering the degree to which Radcliffe ticks the «guys want to be him, women want to be with him» boxes, usually accepted as prerequisites for A-list stardom among male film actors.

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 appeal.

The Telegraph's Robbie Collin, however, said The Winter Soldier ultimately fosters «disappointment that a film with a relatively spicy premise becomes, in the end, so risk - averse».

But as the budgets for blockbuster tentpoles have gotten larger and the projects more risk - averse (with Marvel Studios and its parent company, Walt Disney Pictures, as Exhibit A overlords of the trend) it's become much too easy to acclaim fleeting inspiration and shallow gesturing toward diversity and goodwill as some kind of apogee.