Sentences with phrase «risks of large market»

As noted, averages have limits, but the results do show that the short - term risks of large market swings remain for both types of funds.

Not exact matches

Apple will need game - changing hardware or software for its next iPad or it risks losing a large chunk of the tablet market to cheap — and just as capable — competition.

As the company widens its market, it's increasingly possible that the larger digital imaging companies will move into the space and risk turning awesome little point - of - view cameras into a commodity.

Founder Cheryl Ng has long believed in building markets incrementally, placing modest quantities with international distributors as a means of testing consumer acceptance without risking a lot of capital on large production runs.

While Bond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hysteria.

In contrast to large - company funds that hold upwards of 50 stocks — which leads them to become «closet indexers,» matching the risk and return of the broad market — its funds hold about 30.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

But with the relative stability of large public companies behind most major marketing clouds, the standardization of plug - ins to those clouds offered by their ISV programs, and the open architectures enabled by middleware, the vendor risk associated with most marketing technologies is increasingly being mitigated and controlled.

«Market volatility should be a reminder for you to review your investments regularly and make sure you consider an investing strategy with exposure to different areas of the markets — U.S. small and large caps, international stocks, investment - grade bonds — to help match the overall risk in your portfolio to your personality and goals,» says Dowd.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

About a year and half ago, South Korea emerged as a very large market for speculative trading activities thanks to investors» high risk appetite and fears of missing out.

2018 Outlook: «A synchronized improvement in global economic and financial market conditions means fundamentals are likely to play a larger role in driving individual stock prices, while geopolitical risks and investor complacency leave markets vulnerable to bouts of volatility that may present us with attractive investment entry points.»

Through its innovative Collaborative PBM Cloud ™, RxAdvance is challenging large incumbent PBMs by disrupting their decades - old business and revenue models, and their risk - sharing models are unheard of in the PBM market.»

Your risks and returns are known prior to your investment; this makes it relatively easy to get into the market without a large amount of investment required.

This asset class is spread across a large number of securities, like the corporate bond market, though there are a number of risk factors that are unique to the sector.

Taking actions that risk starting a trade war with the country that is the largest holder of our debt and whose cooperation we need on a host of issues, including North Korea, would not be welcomed by global markets.

The DeltaShares S&P International Managed Risk ETF tracks an index primarily consisting of large - and midcap equity from developed markets outside the US.

Combined with reduced risk - taking in the financial system as a whole, this would then further reduce market - makers» willingness to build up large inventories of less liquid assets.

It may instead be a result of larger structural shifts in the market and investors who are no longer willing to take the risk on smaller I.P.O.'s.

Second, the recent stock market declines of many large technology companies also create risks for the economy.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market cap of their much larger - cap mining peers that had much stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree than their larger - cap peers that were not huge risks.

The belief that large cap implied low risk was a prejudice that needed to be reevaluated — lower risk came from the size of the business, not the size of its market cap.

Our put option defenses do not defend against movements of a few percent, but are in place to protect against unacceptably large downside risk in the event of severe additional market losses.

The plumbing and mechanics of the synthetic gold market, in our opinion, are symptomatic of a more generalized preoccupation in the financial markets at large for risk mitigation, and a quest for greater leverage during a market phase where returns have been compressed by an excess of capital.

Risk is your friend when time is on your side... Right now, you have 85 - 90 % in developed markets (assuming the mysterious «Other» is in there), most of which probably amount to Large Cap Growth.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Canada's housing market is 10 % overvalued, with the biggest risks in condominium overbuilding and uncertainty over how many investors are buying, but the risk of a U.S. - style collapse is low, a top executive at Canada's second largest bank said on Monday.

Finastra is the third largest financial services technology company in the world, providing a broad portfolio of banking, capital markets, investment management, and risk solutions to the financial services industry.

If you are a committed, disciplined buy - and - hold investor with no sensitivity to cyclical market fluctuations (even those as large as the 50 % losses of 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009), and you fully recognize the depth of cyclical risks that regularly accompanies that strategy, I don't encourage a deviation from that discipline based on my analysis of market risk.

A large concentration of flows into ETFs have led EM investors to be disproportionately exposed to mega cap and large cap stocks, causing heightened concentration risks in these segments of the market.

I say crowd because it is not just AQR and Bridgewater involved in risk parity but there are many volatility sellers piggy backing on the power of the largest market players.

The risk of a large impact from such an event will be greater the longer these current trends in credit and housing markets persist.

Many studies of risk have, incorrectly in our opinion, concluded that large - cap stocks, usually defined as the 250 largest market caps, are the least risky.

«While Doug Ford would take an erratic and reckless approach and fire Hydro One's board — which would absolutely do nothing to reduce customer rates, but would almost certainly risk the market value of Hydro One upon which so many people rely — we believe in a stable solution that exercises our authority as the largest shareholder.»

It's more accurate to say that each week we have a small, statistically insignificant and wholly unreliable forecast for the coming week's market direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically signifmarket direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically signifMarket Climates are highly statistically significant.

engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of large gains, especially trading in commodities, stocks, etc., in the hope of profit from changes in the market price.

ADM is one of the world's largest food companies and like the other major commodity traders (Bunge, Cargill, Dreyfus and Xstrata) it has the capacity to manage the risk and the volatility that is inherent in international grain markets.

The growing unpopularity of business and large corporations risks undermining the moral compact in favour of open markets.

«Ofqual — which has done such a great job in recent months upholding standards — was clear that there were significant risks in trying to both strengthen qualifications and end competition in a large part of the exams market.

And New York's market needs all of the paying customers it can get, to spread risk across the largest possible pool and generate stable revenue.

Fidelis, one of the largest insurers on the individual market, owes $ 56 million in risk adjustment payments.

The exam regulator Ofqual — which has done such a great job in recent months upholding standards — was clear that there were significant risks in trying to both strengthen qualifications and end competition in a large part of the exams market.

The firm served several of the largest financial services companies of the world including asset management, credit card, insurance and lending companies in the areas of investment optimization, target marketing and risk management.

Fourth, concentration of market power in the hands of a few large certifiers makes it easier to coordinate the development and enforcement of industry standards... Any agency that fails to conform to these standards risks losing accounts to competitors.

The risks posed by deregulating the vocational education and training sector have serious impacts for large sections of the labour market.

That the two companies are guaranteeing larger loans as part of the government's efforts to shore up the housing market adds to this risk.S & P says, «These potential risks are not a prediction, but a risk worth monitoring.»

According to the basic tenant of portfolio construction, a portfolio that is concentrated in just one market, even a large, diversified market such as the United States, will rarely produce the best long - term risk / reward trade - off.

This strategy reduces the risk of making a large lump sum investment and then watching the market fall shortly after, which is something most investors would like to avoid.