Sentences with phrase «risk of a particular index»

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The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

The index is sector diversified, thereby reducing the risk of being overexposed to a particular sector and taking on large active sector risk relative to the underlying benchmark.

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.

If we balance the potential returns and the potential risks, we find that fixed - rate or fixed index annuities will be principle protected and provide growth that may well be lower than the growth of stocks and mutual funds in particular.

Many investors even invest in investments that track one or more stock indexes in an effort to reduce their risk and / or assure themselves of a particular level of return (though there are no guarantees).

Instead of being pushed off - course by short - term reactions, fear of being different from the crowd or a particular index, our judgments are based purely on long - term analysis of prospective risk and reward.

The diversification you get in ETFs and index mutual funds helps to limit the risk of a big hit if a particular bond defaults.

Each BofA Merrill Lynch Index, such as «BofA Merrill Lunch US High Yield BBB Effective Yield ©» includes all bonds of a particular risk rating group with different maturities.

Gauging market risk requires one to have views about what the near - term price performance of any individual issue, or any particular market index, might be.

He writes about how both closet indexing and shooting for the stars are exposing financial planners» clients to undue risk: «In a recent issue of Barron's, a money manager was quite critical of a particular stock, but said he owned it, although he was «underweighted».

A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.