risk-mitigation

She quickly tackled the "risk-mitigation side" of her family finances involving elderly parents and four children ages 17 to 23.

Will Cousins Cost You? Kelly Greene 2011

"We are spending a lot of time looking at the risks that the company will face in certain parts of the world, particularly in Europe, and we are planning risk-mitigation strategies against that," Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez said last week.

Glaxo Has Been Repatriating Euro-Zone Cash Daily to U.K. Sten Stovall 2012

Mr. Jimenez said he believes the use of highly targeted research and development, combined with efficiencies and risk-mitigation action, is the best way for the Basel-based company to lessen its exposure to adverse currency swings.

Novartis CEO Looks to Mitigate Currency Risk Sten Stovall 2012

The risk-mitigation factors imposed by higher headquarters had serious unintended consequences.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

Likewise, significant risk-mitigation on the carbon front will likely require hard power in the long run to supplement the soft power it already enjoys.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A War on Science? 2009

My worry about the risk-mitigation wonks is that their ideas will be translated by Congress into piecemeal programs to protect middle-class families from all of the major contingencies.

Income Volatility, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A recent publication by Nancy Lee, Guillermo Perry and Nancy Birdsall sets out an agenda for the multilateral development institutions as market developers for new risk-mitigation financial products.

Vijaya Ramachandran: On Current Path, IFC Is Set to Become Bigger Than the World Bank in Five Years 2009

Although Mr. Jenkins and other agency officials wouldn't speculate about what the final risk-mitigation program would look like, it could have elements of a program designed to limit the use of the acne drug isotretinion (commonly known by the brand name Accutane) by women of child-bearing age because the product causes birth defects.

Pain Drugs to Get New Restrictions 2009

Instead, his plan seeks to accomplish many smaller things, each with a more targeted risk-mitigation goal: the reduction of systemic risk, the management of rating agency interest conflicts, protections for consumers of financial products, and regulation of financially engineered securities.

Peter Schwartz: The Hedgehog and the Fox 2009

CDS were initially created as a risk-mitigation instrument, and they can certainly be used that way (for instance, if a transaction depends on a large payment by Lehman Brothers, it may be useful to buy the additional protection to guarantee the amount of that payment from someone else, typically a highly rated entity like AIG (used to be), should Lehman fail).

Sigh... the biggest problem is not (toxic) bank assets 2009