The fund's objectives, typically, are those of (a) maximizing risk adjusted returns, (b) security of capital and (c) liquidity, and their respective attitudes to risk.

a. avoid destabilising capital flows to maximise benefits from globalised capital markets, thereby minimising risk

Those boom time profits were in any case overstated, because they were not adjusted for risk.

Courtesy of that discounting mechanism, the risk adjusted yield arbitrage has now started to move against emerging market securities.

The resulting perception that currency risk was declining bolstered capital inflows further.

As a result, financial markets, which are supposed to manage risk and allocate capital efficiently, created risk and misallocated wildly.

Rather than holding an investment in our bodies, we re all at risk of becoming capital my body, but somebody else s capital.

More efficient and stable international capital markets should lead to decreased intermediation costs and risk premia and, therefore, cheaper capital for investment.

This approach implies that more can be done to reduce systemic risk, beyond reforming how risk is measured and capital buffers determined.

We launched the AlDSRides with an initial investment of 50,000 dollars in risk capital.

More specifically, it was suggested that this would enhance opportunities for the creation of low correlation local currency denominated portfolios of government debt securities that would give investors risk adjusted returns that compared favourably with security indexes in the major capital markets.

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A number of risk factors were identified, including failure, the loss of capital or closure and the risk of being taken over by foreign firms.

They can take on more risk running a more highly leveraged business with less shareholder capital.

The banks can report record profits without much risk, rebuild capital, and pay dividends and bonuses.

While the right policies cannot eliminate risk, they can ameliorate the cost benefit tradeoff from capital flows.

Proceeding with capital injections before the single supervisor is in place would only encourage more risk taking.

Thus, it seemed that the capital importing developing countries as a whole were very much at risk.

We launched the breast cancer three days with an initial investment of 350,000 dollars in risk capital.

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These trends imply an increased probability that the market is underestimating risk, so systemic risk regulators should raise minimum capital requirements as soon as they spot them.

Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal.

A bloated and dysfunctional financial system had misallocated capital and, rather than managing risk, had actually created it.

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Since high risk premiums on government bonds endanger the capital adequacy of banks, half a solution is not enough.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

The problem here is that these measures implicitly assume that risk declines when markets are doing well they demand less capital during calm periods and more capital during volatile periods.

The third risk is that rising oil prices reduce investor confidence and increase risk aversion, leading to stock market corrections that have negative wealth effects on consumption and capital spending.

Similarly, positioning the IMF as a general risk insurer by introducing precautionary credit lines above normal access limits would be compatible neither with its mission to provide financial assistance on deliberately non risk adjusted terms nor with the current system of refinancing short term Fund credit through risk free official reserves.

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars

Perceptions of such divergences force considerable risk premiums on problem countries, inevitably resulting in accelerating capital flight to safe havens.

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d WHO UNICEF 2000 adjusted estimate.

So savers did what one would expect seek higher risk adjusted returns in emerging economies, causing increases in credit and fueling upward pressure on exchange rates and asset prices.

Sharp rises in sovereign, corporate, and interbank liquidity spreads will increase the cost of capital, and increases in risk aversion, volatility, and sovereign risk will undermine business, investor, and consumer confidence further.

Moreover, if financial institutions follow their own risk assessments when estimating appropriate capital cushions, the costs associated with such provisions decline.

Foreign participation in the financial sector brings expertise needed to provide more efficient savings instruments, risk management, and allocation of capital.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.