Sentences with phrase «risk than an investor»

An investor saving for retirement may be comfortable taking on more risk than an investor saving for a down payment.

For example, a portfolio that starts out with a 70 % equity and 30 % fixed - income allocation could, through an extended market rally, shift to an 80/20 allocation that exposes the portfolio to more risk than the investor can tolerate.

An investor saving for retirement may be comfortable taking on more risk than an investor saving for a down payment.

For example, a portfolio that starts out with a 70 % equity and 30 % fixed - income allocation could, through an extended market rally, shift to an 80/20 allocation that exposes the portfolio to more risk than the investor can tolerate.

Building a portfolio by selecting individual stocks can be financially rewarding, but finding companies that are worth buying and holding for the long term can be time - consuming and involve more risk than some investors are comfortable with.

Owners of nursing homes, medical office buildings and assisted living developments are exposed to greater risks than investors in other real estate classes.

Not exact matches

If you're a Bitcoin investor: You'd be wise to build in these risks into your investment decisions sooner rather than later.

And that will require investors to adjust their strategy and their expectations henceforward — by paying more for equities, taking on more risk with fixed income and socking away more than they used to.

Kramer is concerned that creeping gamification will cause investors to take on more risk than they should.

CLOs have spread the risk of leverage lending to many more investors than in the past, even if they don't know what they have actually gotten into.

Investors who need more income from their portfolios have no option other than taking on more risk.

Although European investors have, historically, been more risk - averse than Americans, that perception may be changing as more high - profile companies see successful exits, and their founders reinvest in the local startup ecosystem.

Investors without private market exposure are also running meaningful concentration risk, not just in terms of the number of public companies (less than 4,000) relative to private companies (more than 6 million), but because publicly traded companies are now more highly concentrated within certain industries as a result of strategic M&A.

Indeed, Millennial women are twice as likely to be active investors and twice as likely to take on high - risk investments than Baby Boomer women.

To reflect that risk, my angel investors got a better valuation than the VCs did in 1999.

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.

Global growth has slowed more than investors had previously anticipated and political risk has risen; yet over the past four years flows into emerging markets funds have remained very strong despite their underperformance.

Juckes fears a summer of «risk aversion» that would see investors rushing to havens rather than putting their money to more productive uses.

When it comes to preparing for the long term, women face a «perfect storm» financially: They are paid less than men are on average, typically have more gaps in employment, engage in more part - time employment and are often more risk - averse investors.

The Department concludes that it can best protect the interests of retirement investors in receiving sound advice, provide greater certainty to the public and regulated parties, and minimize the risk of unnecessary disruption by taking a more balanced approach than simply granting a flat delay of fiduciary status and all associated obligations for a protracted period.

The logic being that the current investors and founders have more inside knowledge of the company performance and dynamics than a brand new investor and thus if the new investor is going to «pay up» they shouldn't take all of the pricing risk in the deal.

For most investors it probably doesn't make sense to invest any further out than intermediate bonds or bond funds (10 year maximum maturity) to lower the risk of large losses.

The currency would then be fairly priced, the expected volatility very low and unbiased, and investors would require nothing more than the risk - free cost of capital (assuming, of course, that expected inflation is positive).

The lessons from that period, perhaps more than any previous one, taught the risk industry that expert judgment and economic insight may help investors anticipate and avoid exposure to major financial downturns by using forward - looking models

Mutual fund investors need look no further than what happened to stock investors before Reg FD to get a sense of the risk here.

May 18, 2016: For more than 30 years, institutional investors have relied on Barra models to help better manage portfolios and understand market risks.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The ensemble methods that came out of that effort, while performing even better than our pre-2009 methods in full cycles across history, also subtly reduced the impact of various components we use to infer investor risk preferences.

Prospect theory also explains why investors hold onto losing stocks: people often take more risks to avoid losses than to realize gains.

Offering periodic redemptions rather than daily redemptions gives the fund the opportunity to invest in assets that may be considered more illiquid in nature and higher risk, and therefore more suitable to long - term investors.

As a result, investors seeking additional returns from fixed - interest portfolios have been prepared to accept greater credit risk than in the past.

A conservative portfolio is appropriate for an investor with a low risk tolerance and a time horizon from immediate to longer than 3 years.

Top of the risk charts was the US's new - found protectionism, with trade tariffs having the potential to batter investor confidence — especially if the US's trading partners, rather than adopting a mollifying stance, choose instead to meet fire with fire by launching an all - out trade war.

Those investor risk preferences also determine when extreme overvaluation tends to be ignored by investors, and when it tends to produce vertical losses (See A Better Lesson Than «This Time is Different»).

Rather, investors appear to respond to emerging risks no more than about three months ahead of time.

There is more risk in these unconventional assets than most investors care to stomach.

Within the broader risk / reward topic is the theory of «loss aversion,» which states that investors prefer to avoid losses even more than they desire to reap rewards.

However, we took note of comments from famed investor Jeff Gundlach; that it is wrong to believe U.S bonds are more attractive than those from Europe and Japan because of currency risk.

Long added that lawsuits by investors following such a finding might be the larger risk than any specific punishment regulators might impose, but she also argued that the SEC still has some important thinking to do.

U.S. stocks plunged on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking more than 400 points as rising government bond yields drove investors into risk - off mode...

This very low market volatility can lead investors to take on more risk, and in a period of still relatively low interest rates, to «reach for yield» — that is, buy riskier assets than one would otherwise, in order to achieve a desired profit or savings goal.

Managing risk is so key, and is probably being ignored by many investors who have less than 10 years experience.

Early - stage investors will accept more risk associated with market and customer validation and on the perceived execution skills of the team than later - stage investors.

«Many investors expected a more lengthy FDA review process of the JCAR015 trial (and potentially other CAR - T programs) and feared that a higher - degree regulatory scrutiny could increase the development risk of CAR T cell,» Leerink Research said in a note co-authored by analysts Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., Jonathan Chang, Ph.D., and Varun Kumar, Ph.D. «While it may take several weeks to reopen all clinical sites of the ROCKET trial, we believe the trial shouldn't be delayed by more than ~ 3 months.»

Johnson, who has lived and worked in Brazil, added, «In talking to investors and analysts, rather than people taking the time to understand what's really going on in Brazil, the easier thing [for them] to do is to say if the company has Brazil risk, avoid it — and that is unfortunate.»

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, broad changes in global investor risk sentiment were important drivers of currency movements, at times driving more than 50 percent of the fluctuations, according to BlackRock analysis.

Investors typically own short - term bond funds as a low - risk vehicle to preserve their principal, so losses in this segment tend to be more upsetting than a downturn in investments such as stock funds where volatility can be expected.

However, their prospective returns are lower than the performance that many investors project, while their risk is higher than many investors appreciate.

They take on less personal risk than angel investors or crowdfunders, who use their own capital.

In short, investors should expect smaller excess returns for the risk of owning equities in the future than they enjoyed in the past.