This volume of assets allows the Fund to expand its investment frontier and requires it to build up a risk control mechanism, to control comprehensively not only investment risk but also operational risk and technology risk.

Mechanisms to better manage and mitigate investment risk are required.

But gold is also a high risk and highly volatile investment.

Nevertheless, although gold is not an appropriate hedge against inflation risk or exchange rate risk, it may be a very good investment.

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

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

The project will assist the Investment Management Service in mitigating exposure to various risk factors.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

Registered investment companies and investment advisers are required to adopt strong compliance controls, managed by a chief risk officer and administered by a chief compliance officer.

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

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

A state of the art system will allow the Investment Management Service to rapidly and accurately handle complex investment data and analyse the portfolio risk and its performance.

Certainly, the vast majority of economists, investment analysts, financial firms, and regulators failed to see the growing risk.

The New Yorkers still live in their own homes, but now they have spread their investment risk worldwide.

Growth has resumed, financial risk premia have fallen sharply, foreign investment is picking up, and exports are booming.

But this does not mean that all investment should come to an end. If the risk can be eliminated, the investment engine can be kept going, at least temporarily.

Countries like Bangladesh and Mozambique have proven that disaster risk reduction and preparedness can be a life saving investment.

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

As real interest rates and risk premia begin to rise, the level of global trade and investment will decline.

An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

The proposed crisis mechanism would effectively insure government bond purchasers against the risk of insolvency, but it would entail deductibles that compel bondholders to assume some of the investment risk.

(e) Investment in disaster risk reduction thus enhances sustainable development and enables humanitarian assistance capacity to be applied more effectively

Indeed, the risk has become more concentrated as banks in the periphery have increased their investment in their own countries bonds.

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

Although the Investment Management Service is not a registered investment company, the goal of the Risk and Compliance Section would be to enhance the compliance function and, in doing so, foster improved compliance.

However, despite compelling evidence that risk reduction efforts are linked to improved opportunities for sustainable development, obtaining funds for capacity building and investment in reducing vulnerability and risk continues to be a challenge.

Ratings agencies had incentives to give good ratings to the high risk securities produced by the investment banks that were paying them.

And any attempt to make investment bankers suffer more last fall and winter would have put the entire support operation at risk.

The introduction of high end investment tools, such as those for risk management, may require upgrading the workstations that support this software.

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

The September summit should endorse national and international measures to direct foreign investment to low income countries through such measures as investment guarantee schemes, tax and other incentives, revised risk rating and similar arrangements.

Also, an investment team specialized in developing countries and in alternative investments would increase the probability of higher investment returns and would also offer a better risk management capability as a result of further diversification.

This data warehouse system, as the core of the infrastructure of the Investment Management System, would integrate with the other specialist investment applications which support risk and performance, compliance, trading, accounting and internal reporting functions.

The performance analysis will comprise an attribution analysis, to determine the driving forces behind investment performance of each manager, a returns analysis, and risk statistics related to each investment manager, sector, industry, currency and region.

A powerful factor that diminished perceived risk and encouraged investment and enterprise in the post WWII era was the so called Roosevelt put.

Providing banks and investors with more accurate and comprehensive information for SME applicants can dramatically reduce the risk of the investment or loan.

The system is integrated with pre trade and post trade capabilities which will reduce the operational risk exposure of the Investment Management Service.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

Notwithstanding a dysfunctional Congress, the private sector will increasingly convert a paralyzing uncertainty premium, which impedes much investment, into a less disruptive risk premium.

Under this scheme, investors would face a potential insolvency risk, but the maximum loss they could expect is limited to 60 of their investment.

The system will allow the Service to prepare, on a regular basis, comprehensive risk and performance analyses for senior management and the Investment Committee.

As a participant in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, IFRC viewed risk and vulnerability reduction not as a cost, but as an investment.

But, to facilitate this shift, appropriate financing vehicles must be developed investment and risk management expertise will have to be acquired regulatory frameworks will have to be improved and adequate data and investment benchmarks will be needed.

But what is proposed now will make lending for investment even less attractive and increase the incentive to concentrate sovereign risk in the banking sector.

These markets can become a strong source of financing for longer term domestic investment, including in infrastructure, thereby reducing currency risk for borrowers and investors.