This is the second week of Risk amp Return.

(b) Obtain optimal return without undue risk

Toxic assets are not traded according to a normal risk return calculus.

A return to normal risk assessment is also more difficult in Europe.

A transferring State must seek the return of any transferred person whose rights are at risk.

It's the kind of very high risk, but potentially very high return thing that we do.

Some of those individuals might be at risk of torture on their return to their port of departure.

Is your lamp so precious you would risk your life to return to the island?

In addition, several large pension funds are utilizing derivative instruments to modify the risk return profile of the portfolio

Refugees seeking to return to those areas face a serious risk of death or injury from the land mines.

But in return for taking on all of the risk, this person is going to get a higher yield.

However, there is now a high risk that Italian politicians will return to their old habits.

The search for return contributed to the reckless leverage and risk taking that underlay this crisis.

And I said so, we like return, we dislike risk, we diversify, therefore we hold portfolios.

Mine action programmes continue to facilitate return and the delivery of assistance by opening vital routes into communities at risk.

The first of the above steps is generally accepted to have the most significant influence on expected return and risk.

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

Of course, you can argue that post crisis regulatory reform will eventually resolve the problem of periodic systemic risk, and that we will return to the more comfortable world of relatively stationary risk without periodic imbalances.

The integrated risk and return management method is a practical approach that should be adopted by any pension fund.

This would reinforce the need for inter communal cooperation and minimize the risk of a return to any form of communal domination or dictatorship.

(c) An allocation to emerging market debt may be an optimal method of achieving exposure to the potentially high risk high return profile of developing countries

Those who do not take the advice offered and return would be at risk of being the first targets in the event of a reconquest of power.

Investors around the world would take on Japanese GDP risk in return for an expected yield, just as with catastrophe bonds.

What all these strategies had in common, writes Haldane, was that they involved banks assuming risk in the hunt for yield risk that was often disguised because it was parked in the tail of the return distribution.

Risk off episodes, in which investor sentiment sours, are likely to return if economic news worsens and confidence in policymakers effectiveness drops.

No return, no return, no return

But the promise of a return to the status quo ante of risk free public debt is not compatible with the continuing limits on the socialization of national debt.

Of course, you can argue that post crisis regulatory reform will eventually resolve the problem of periodic systemic risk, and that we will return to the more comfortable world of relatively stationary risk without periodic imbalances. But I would not bet on this happening.

Today, the global surfeit of liquidity has once again resulted in comparably low risk premia and a resurgence of capital flows, despite a broad consensus that the world faces enormous risks (including the risks posed by a return of risk premia to more normal levels.)

If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930 s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.

On 21 July 2004, the author observed that the State party had not addressed the risk of irreparable harm that he would face upon return to Uganda.

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They have an increased risk of infection, an increased risk of malignancy.

This raises the question of the ways and means of consolidating peace to emerge from a period of chaos in order to avoid the risk of a return to square one.

This pattern can be only partly repeated in the eurozone, where both debt socialization and a return to normal risk assessment appear more difficult.

The aim, however, is to determine whether the individual concerned would personally risk torture in the country to which he or she would return.

For basic scientific research, the potential return will be broadly available to any and all, whether or not they paid for it and bore the risk of failure.

No return, no return

No return, no return

I carry a 32 percent risk of prostate cancer, 22 percent risk of psoriasis and a 14 percent risk of Alzheimer's disease.

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