Sentences with phrase «than downside risk»

Long term I think XLB has a lot more upside potential than downside risk.

«There's a lot more upside potential than downside risk,» says David Elstone, an analyst with Gibsons, B.C. — based ERA Forest Products Research, who notes that those improved 2012 housing starts were still less than half of historical norms.

My outlook on GDP is relatively optimistic, with more upside potential than downside risks.

Not exact matches

Failing early and figuring out how to handle it is a much better approach than risk avoidance, which basically limits your upside opportunities without really providing any downside protection.

However, there's less downside risk to buying a beaten - down asset class than an outperforming one (like health care in 2015).

Risk, as entrepreneurs know better than anyone, incorporates upside as well as downside.

Employees who are risk - takers will be more willing to assume the risk associated with working in a startup, as they focus on the potential upside of success more than the downside of failure.

These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.

And, since the process began, companies have cut investment spending each quarter by more than we expected, so this has been framed as a downside risk.

It offers the potential to earn more money than, say, a bank certificate of deposit or a money market account, and the index options give the client some flexibility in how much downside risk there will be.

The PBO identified four key downside risks to the private sector forecast: global growth, especially in the U.S. could be slower than anticipated; the appreciation of the Canadian dollar could adversely affect exports; sovereign debt issues in Europe could restrain recovery there and put upward pressure on global interest rates; and the high level of household debt in Canada could restrain domestic demand.

This trade sets up for a better than 3 - 1 reward to risk ratio and has a well - defined downside.

Even over the next few years, while there are significant downside risks relating to the fiscal cliff and the eurozone, it is possible that the recovery could turn out stronger than expected.

In my personal opinion, the emphasis upon taking out insurance against downside risks lies in conflict with the shift to data dependency given long and variable lags of monetary policy impacts on the broader economy which could have counselled front - loading insurance cuts rather than scattering them (if delivering any more at all) in which case precious little insurance has been taken out.

Because the modification poses only downside risk, the Compensation Committee determined that a portion of the original grant should vest earlier than originally scheduled.

Setting temperatures to the colder side of comfortable rather than the warmer is simply sensible risk management: The downside risk to it being too cold is that some people have to wear an extra layer.

Growth outlook in the eurozone remains broadly balanced with chances of better than expected economic growth, while downside risks are largely associated with global factors, including the forex (foreign exchange) markets.

The modest change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt cyclicals, all of which we hold with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.

You are making a little (or nothing, or less than nothing), with unbounded downside risk.

I think there's more downside risk than upside risk at this stage.

A declining business with mounting pension liabilities, EK is a stock with a lot more downside risk than upside potential.

As part of the downside risks, they include the possibility of further increases in oil and commodity prices; a stronger - than - anticipated slowdown in China; the unsettled fiscal situation in the United States and Japan; and the renewed weakness in housing markets in many OECD countries.

Taking on more equity risk when the expected future returns are lower than in the past and downside risks higher makes little sense to me.

According to Kiplinger's 2016 Outlook for Municipal Bonds, incremental rate hikes pose much less downside risk to municipal bonds than to Treasuries of equivalent maturities.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

We paid less than book value for our stake and believe BNP's strong balance sheet and high underlying profitability should help mitigate downside risk.

This is a nearly 1:5 and 1:8 risk - reward trade, which means that this trade offers nearly 5X to 8X more potential upside than downside.

Other than Durant, actually, he has the lowest downside risk of anyone on the list because of his age and injury profile, excepting the broken leg none of us will ever forget.

But it is a risk you must take against Alabama because, in the end, the downside of doing it (quick death) is no different than the downside of not doing it (fast death).

The downside, of course, is that polyethylene is still plastic and may have its own share of problems, but after weighing the risks and benefits of each, I was more comfortable with the polyethylene coating than the potential off - gassing chemicals, so we encased our mattress until we could replace it.

Zac took the risk because the downside «dying» was outweighed by the upside (adventure, experience, record, and showing that young people can do way more than expected from them).

Yet we believe equities offer a better risk - reward profile than credit given their potential for greater upside in returns and more balanced downside risks.

For example, an individual avoids equity investments due to the downside risk involved instead he prefers to invest in PPF where his capital is protected though the returns may be lower in long term than mutual funds.

As well, there is less downside risk to bonds than there is to stocks.

If more than 5 % of the plausible paths end in a loss greater than your selected downside risk, we change your allocation towards more conservative assets.

For guidance on creating a stocks - bonds blend that will generate the returns you'll need without subjecting you to more downside risk than you can handle, you can check out this Investor Questionnaire.

Voting against the action were Richard W. Fisher, who believed that, while the Committee should be patient in beginning to normalize monetary policy, improvement in the U.S. economic performance since October has moved forward, further than the majority of the Committee envisions, the date when it will likely be appropriate to increase the federal funds rate; Narayana Kocherlakota, who believed that the Committee's decision, in the context of ongoing low inflation and falling market - based measures of longer - term inflation expectations, created undue downside risk to the credibility of the 2 percent inflation target; and Charles I. Plosser, who believed that the statement should not stress the importance of the passage of time as a key element of its forward guidance and, given the improvement in economic conditions, should not emphasize the consistency of the current forward guidance with previous statements.

«We are deeply concerned with recent corporate actions at Avigen that are indicative of a Board that seems far more interested in remaining in place to do whatever it pleases with corporate assets than in returning value and protecting downside risk for all stockholders,» stated Mark N. Lampert, the General Partner of BVF.

Earnings from equity - indexed annuities are usually slightly higher than traditional fixed rate annuities, lower than variable rate annuities but with better downside risk protection than variable annuities usually offer.

In this way, we attempt to build portfolios in which the upside potential is higher than the market while the downside risk is lower.

That means your downside risk is disproportionately larger than your upside opportunity, and that makes avoiding defaults the most important aspect of security selection.

The downside is that risk is higher (dividends may be cut, even when the economy is doing well), but the upside is that with higher yields one can build a good income stream with less capital and less time (and being in my forties, time is more valued than it was in my twenties).

The DRS has had more downside risk than traditional investment - grade bonds, but with the lack of yield available in fixed income, an increasing number of investors are open to the idea of an allocation to «alternative fixed income.»

In that regard, it is no different than if you had a traditional mortgage when the kids inherited... except no downside risk to your heirs for a bad real estate market.

As for downside risk, we would argue that this would manifest primarily as a weaker - than - expected vote share for President Putin.

Based on the belief that ITRI will return to its upper side of this range I could've waited to sell new calls, but I prefer to lock in the premiums when I can get them rather than risk losing more to the downside.

A traditional large cap value fund that focuses on investing in high quality, undervalued companies believed to be in out - of - favor industries with less downside risk than the overall market.

If a well - understood business is offered to you at half or less than its underlying intrinsic value two to three years from now, with minimal downside risk, take it.

We have to assess downside risks, and possibilities that some things might go better than the baseline scenario.

This is perhaps the most compelling reason to own real estate directly as opposed to owning REIT stock, especially during periods where equities may be fully - priced and potentially facing more near - term downside risk than upside potential.