Sentences with phrase «take on any risks at»

Please tell me why someone who has 45 + years of savings ahead of them needs to take on ANY risks at all (above an inflation hedge)?

There is more interest in shorting the residential housing market through buying protection on BBB - rated home equity asset - backed securities than there are players wanting to take on that risk at the spreads offered in the asset - backed market at present.

Buyers emerged much quicker than the February episode, showing a willingness to take on risk at higher prices.

These specialty companies have experience in exactly that kind of underwriting and have balanced their book of business such that they're able to take on the risk at a reasonable price.

Not exact matches

Those federal rules, which double down on restrictions adopted in 2014 and stern warnings to lenders issued by OSFI earlier this summer, require banks to qualify borrowers at higher interest rates, impose additional limits on mortgages for buyers with small down payments, and compel financial institutions to share the risk by taking out insurance policies on low - ratio mortgages.

They found that the people on the supplements were no less at risk than the people who didn't take them.

For one, investors are going to have to get comfortable taking on more risk in their equity portfolios by buying stocks at higher valuations.

When Jobs resigned from the top post at Apple in August, Slywotzky blogged that he was seen as an inspired savant who took big risks on personal hunches.

The dilemma facing the boards at Microsoft, Apple or any board of directors on the departure of an innovative CEO is strategic: Do we want still want to be a innovative, risk taking company?

«Gold is stuck between $ 1,238 - $ 1,260 with the risk to skewed to downside based on rising expected interest rates and failure to break higher which has left it vulnerable to profit - taking in the short term,» said Ole Hansen, the head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.

Both Ruiz and Cortazzo say they are using variable annuities sparingly with clients at this point, but for investors who are uncomfortable taking on a lot of market risk, annuities can be a solution.

Woolard also noted at that event that when it comes to Google investing in clean energy projects, it can be «fairly forward leaning and take on some risk.»

More than a decade ago, Joey Wat at Yum China, was given the chance to take on a massive career challenge that had a high risk of failure — and her decision led Wat into the role she has now.

However, if proper steps aren't taken to arrive at an available name, the risk of stepping on an existing trademark can be high.

The company must have long - term potential; it needs some sort of sustainable competitive advantage that will keep it in business for years to come; he wants double - digit returns — «Why bother buying a business if you're not getting at least that for taking on the risk of owning a company?»

It might come at the risk of turning off some people, but Marshall recommends taking a position (from time to time) on how a problem should be solved.

«They ask themselves — 1) What I absolutely need to live on and therefore need to shield from investment risk; (2) What I need to make my investments grow at the market rate and beyond inflation so I can meet my future needs; (3) What do I dream about and need to take risks around in order to come true?»

Someone invests his savings in her business, takes on appropriate risk based on her business plan, manages a business prudently and ethically, pays her employees well and then is told at the end that she doesn't actually own anything for her trouble?

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

Valeant shares, down 10 % on Monday after a Wells Fargo research note said its board and management «have made decisions that may have put Valeant at significant business and reputational risk,» took another hit when Bloomberg News reported CVS's decision.

You don't drive a car looking in the rear - view mirror, and you shouldn't take a risk on a new product by looking at historical data.

When you invest in a Bitcoin company, you're taking a risk not only on that startup but also on the overall Bitcoin space, said Pamir Gelenbe, partner at Hummingbird Ventures, a European early - stage venture fund, during Tuesday's panel.

That is why companies are now beginning to take on the challenge of finding their second and third and fourth big idea long before they are at risk of losing relevance.

Our employees are free to take positive risks knowing that they will not solely be judged on a company's profit margin, but also on factors that all of us at Virgin value, like raising awareness of the brand, creating happy and loyal customers or making a positive impact on the larger community.

After reading and thinking about all of this, I stand by my (relatively) broad definition of an entrepreneur — namely, that anyone who takes on the risk of working for him or herself is (at least one type of) an entrepreneur.

My students used to come to me at Stanford and say, «I'd really like to do something on my own, but I'm just not ready to take that much risk.

Possible reasons for the increased lending activity include lower levels of regulation at smaller banks than at their larger counterparts, recent movement of lending staffers from large banks to small banks and an increased willingness of smaller banks to take on credit and interest risk, the report says.

«With the US labor market recovery gaining momentum, the hope for stronger global growth in 2014 is motivating investors to take on risk,» said Kathy Lien, managing director of FX Strategy at BK Asset Management.

«Relook at it and if there's a different way to do it, be willing to say «I'm going to forget about all of this and I'm going to take that risk again and I'm going to put all my chips on the table and I'm going to gamble on myself.»»

«If you are just buying income and not paying attention to the valuations, you are probably taking on more risk than you bargained for,» says Brad Kinkelaar, head of the dividend team at Pimco.

Often, actors who take on too many projects at once run the risk of spreading themselves too thin.

At financial institutions, where the firms» finances are the flip side of the investments they make, CFOs are also taking on more of the risk management function as well.

The lender is taking on less risk, so they will usually grant a higher credit maximum at a lower rate for secured lines.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

In this model, the dealer will buy or sell from investors at a relatively narrow spread, but he has limits on how much risk he'll take.

Taking on that kind of debt would be a risk the company can ill afford amid headwinds in Canada as consumers carry record debt, said Stephen Groff, who helps run $ 6 billion as a portfolio manager at Cambridge Global Asset Management, a unit of CI Investments Inc..

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And the seed folks typically try to get all their ownership early on so they don't want or need to take on that additional risk at that stage.»

Mr. Francois, 49, on the job at Chrysler for 15 months, is gaining a reputation among his ad agencies, dealers and staff for surprising them and taking the kinds of risks that make them feel more confident than they ever did while owned by German carmaker Daimler or private - equity firm Cerberus Capital.

Being the entrepreneur behind the venture, he can take much more risk compared to the senior management at Uber India, who mostly come from a consulting background with a chip on their shoulder.

But if you're finding a cold shoulder to all of that, look at the alternative of what it will take to continue to stay in business and remove risk to become more attractive to investors later on.

The HRC noted that any incentive compensation program that rewards an SEO based in part on his or her business line performance presents, at least in theory, the potential for excessive risk taking.

And I warned at a number of junctures in 1999 before the Internet bubble, and again in the winter of 2007, that the main thing we had to fear was the lack of fear itself, precisely because a sense that everything is stable is a self - denying prophecy, because if there is a sense that everything is stable, -LSB-...] people will take on more risk and that will then create the conditions for future instability.

LOS ANGELES The windfall gains from the tax cuts passed by the U.S. Congress in December have brought back «animal spirits» that encourage risk - taking throughout corporate America, according to some of the participants at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in California on Monday.

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Since he is roughly 40 years from retirement, he can afford to take on more risk in his portfolio, and we can see that stocks make up at least 90 % in both portfolios.

It does so because by taking on these risks, it gets deals at good prices.

Opening new trades at the current levels involves taking on too much risk with minimal upside potential (negative reward - risk ratio).

But for good measure, and given the risk of appeal, Justice Macintosh went on to give his reasons denying Burnaby's application and for supporting the NEB's reasoning in its Ruling No. 40 concluding (at para 80) that «under both... paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity... Burnaby is precluded from seeking to apply its bylaws so as to impede or block any steps Trans Mountain must take in order to safely prepare and locate the Expansion Project.»

Helping to right the ship at Uber is a somewhat fitting role for Mr. Gurley, who for years has warned about excessive risk - taking on the part of start - ups.