News tagged with financial risk
Few small employers likely to opt out of health reform rules
Rules that allow some small employers to avoid regulation under the federal Affordable Care Act are unlikely to have a major impact on the future cost of health insurance unless those rules are relaxed to allow more businesses ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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One in four UK children facing multiple risks to development, study finds
(Medical Xpress) -- More than one in four UK infants is growing up in families facing multiple challenges such as parental depression and financial hardship that can have a damaging effect on children’s development, ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Investment risk tolerance affected by age, economic climate, study shows
As the U.S. economy continues to lag, many investors remain wary about taking risks with the stock market. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have concluded that this attitude toward investment risk-taking is ...
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Study finds unexplored link between airlines' profitability and their accident rates
(PhysOrg.com) -- Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a study by a professor in BYU’s Marriott School of Management.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 28, 2011 |
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New technology pinpoints anomalies in complex financial data
Identifying atypical information in financial data early could help identify problematic financial trends such as the systemic risk that recently put the U.S. and global financial systems in a downward fall. ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Fall market jitters a SAD thing, suggests paper from the Rotman School of Management
It's no surprise to researcher Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 11, 2011 |
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A plan for better banking: Researchers propose model of systemwide diversification
As much of the developed world continues to dig out from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, a team of researchers at Harvard and in London has created a model of bank failure aimed at helping economies ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Common spinal fusion product shown to be harmful
(Medical Xpress) -- The risk of complications associated with a bone growth factor commonly used in spinal fusion surgeries is estimated to be at least 10 to 50 times greater than previously reported in industry-sponsored ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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You only live once: Our flawed understanding of risk helps drive financial market instability
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our flawed understanding of how decisions in the present restrict our options in the future means that we may underestimate the risk associated with investment decisions, according to new ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Full-time work no longer considered the norm in Australia
Casual, part-time and contract work is gradually overtaking permanent full time employment as the standard type of job for the majority of working Australians, according to a major report by the Workplace Research Centre ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Financial literary bailout for the younger generation
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, financial literacy is still low among young adults. According to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, only twenty-seven percent of people aged 23-28 can an ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Market failure expert says letting Lehman go was good thing
Approaching the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' demise, NJIT Finance Professor Michael Ehrlich, an expert on market failure, says that the Feds made the right move when they allowed the investment firm to go bankrupt.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble
Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Delving into the murky metrics of financial risk
(PhysOrg.com) -- The way J. Michael Collins sees it, United States consumers aren’t necessarily less informed about financial risk than consumers from other industrialized nations. What Americans do have, ...
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Economist says renewed financial crisis looms unless government acts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Another crippling financial crisis looms unless the U.S. government thaws credit markets that are starting to freeze up amid a lingering and deepening recession, a University of Illinois economist ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
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