The position of risk manager, according to one generic job description provided by industry sources, includes responsibility for supervising corporate policy in risk retention and management, fire protection, security and personnel safety.

Coping with Catastrophic Risks

Underlying Risk Factors

This would reduce transaction costs and trading risks.

Taking Systemic Risk Seriously

NEW YORK The world s economic, financial, and geopolitical risks are shifting. Some risks now have a lower probability even if they are not fully extinguished.

The ever growing level of trafficking for sexual purposes is one manifestation of the risks of globalization.

Young children's vulnerability to risks.

And then, the systemic risks.

Indian Ocean disaster risk reduction for a safer world

Has Barbados' Customs Service implemented intelligence based risk management on borders to identify high risk goods?

In the western province of Wielkopolska there is a higher risk of death caused by malignant tumours of the breast and cervix among women, and of the prostate gland and testicles among men.

This is a systemic risk, systemic shock.

63. When determining an asset s vulnerability, its cost, portability, exchangeability and perceived risk of loss or improper use should be considered.

Yet we face the growing risks of proliferation and catastrophic terrorism, and the stakes are too high to continue down a dangerous path of diplomatic brinksmanship.

This response is understandably controversial, because it rewards those who bet on risky assets, many of whom accepted risk with open eyes and bear some responsibility for causing the crisis. But an effective rescue cannot be done any other way.

Their actions typically fall into the risk mitigation or loss severity reduction phases of the risk management process.

It also believed that the risks from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction could not be dissociated from the risks from proliferation of their delivery systems.

Human societies have to live with the risk of hazards posed by nature.

Discover and suppress the risk of non contagious diseases,

Bermuda remains the world's leading domicile for captive insurance and reinsurance companies.

(h) Border control strengthened through technical equipment support and enhanced risk assessment, targeting and profiling skills

The utilisation of the subterranean depth of the owned land or the land at person's disposal for private purposes is free of charge.

Women apos s risk of HIV infection through the parents is three times higher than that of men.

Risk?

The Conference attracted worldwide attention and assumed an unprecedented level of significance with regard to disaster risk reduction.

At the same time, however, commercial banks insist on minimizing their exposure to completion, commercial, political or other project risks.

Moreover, in a risk off environment, when investors are risk averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.

In order to reduce disaster risks, countries and communities must first identify risk factors, decide what level of risk is acceptable, and then take steps to reduce risks or transfer them away from affected areas.

The Office also found that the function of risk management was poorly defined.

The engagement of the insurance industry is essential as risk insurance could be a passive option for financing these technologies that redistributes the risks between different actors.

Risks

(b) The nature of her job poses a risk to the unborn child

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.

7. The Office of Internal Oversight Services believes that the Organization requires a more cohesive, clearly defined approach to managing its risk exposure.

12. The Office of Internal Oversight Services found that the Insurance Section had too heavily delegated its risk management responsibilities to the Organization s insurance brokers.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services believes that the combination of these lines could make the risk package more attractive to underwriters, since the exposures would be spread across a wider spectrum of locations and risk profiles.

Among youth at risk, there is a loss of connectedness and an absence of anchoring values.

When the standards are based on a properly conducted security risk assessment according to the new security risk management methodology, they have proven to be an effective tool to mitigate risk and thus to enable programme delivery.

Reproductive risk is lowest in the wealthy industrialized world, whereas countries with the highest reproductive risk are the poorest countries in sub Saharan Africa.

In fact, when you go back to the beginning, there were no private investors who would be willing to take a risk on building a new technology for a market class that made under a dollar a day, that were known to be some of the most risk averse people on the planet and that were working in one of the riskiest sectors, agriculture.

To see why, note that being long and selling short in the stock market has an asymmetric risk reward profile. Losing on a long position reduces one s risk exposure, while losing on a short position increases it, so one can be more patient being long and wrong than being short and wrong.

Such risk evaluations or information on alternative risk mitigation measures submitted by Parties may be found on the Rotterdam Convention web site (www.pic.int).

It was also observed that as long as the element of risk was incorporated into the draft protocol, a certain ambiguity would remain, since risk was a subjective concept.

Risk reduction, therefore, entails reducing vulnerability to hazards.