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A few academics, analysts and investors such as Warren Buffett and the IMF's former chief economist Raghuram Rajan warned that CDOs, other asset-backed securities and other derivatives spread risk and uncertainty about the value of the underlying assets more widely, rather than reduce risk through diversification.
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Today few academics make such a claim, but it still a common explanation in other circles.
Survey research was then in its infancy, and few academics realized that a sample of telephone users was not representative of the general population.
Over the last few years, the UPEACE Human Rights Centre has conducted several training courses for policy makers, staff members of the UN and other inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, practitioners, academics and civil servants.
Outside Ukraine, however, such nationalist-based theories that distance Ukrainian from East Slavic have found few followers among international scholars and most academics continue to place Ukrainian firmly within the East Slavic group, descended from Proto-East Slavic, with close ties to Belarusian and Russian.
In the magazine's current incarnation ( as of April 2006 ), a few longer reviews, usually written by well-known figures in the field of foreign policy, begin the section, followed by a subsection titled " Recent Books on International Relations " with shorter half-page-long reviews written by eminent academics.
Excluding gatherings solely for diplomats and academics, there are a few organizations which regularly hold events at the UN.
Edward Palmer, the CTW's first Director of Research and the man Cooney credited with building the CTW's foundation of research, was one of the few academics in the late 1960s researching children's television.
Green's work has otherwise received comparatively little critical attention from academics ; one of the few academics engaged with Green's work is Jeremy Treglown, author of Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green ( Faber and Faber, 2000 ).
A few academics, outside the consensus among historians, have argued that she may have played some role.
However in the United States, Canada and other countries influenced by their educational systems, the term is used differently and generally denotes academics without tenure who teach full-or part-time but who have few or no research responsibilities.
However, in the United States, Canada, and other countries influenced by their educational systems, the term is used differently, generally denoting academics without tenure who teach full or part-time but have few or no research responsibilities.
Fans of the book, including authors and academics, have attempted to expand on the few words and phrases extant in the corpus of Watership Down and develop it into a fuller language.
Few academics currently promote classical Marxist views, especially in America, but there are a few exceptions in Europe.
The protests against the demolition of Shanbally Castle came from some local sources, An Taisce, a few academics such as Professor Gwynn and some political voices such as Senator Sean Moylan, the Minister for Agriculture until his death in November 1957, and TD from Mitchelstown, John W Moher.
Prominent former members include quite a few academics, bishops, business leaders, generals and politicians ( e. g. president Urho Kekkonen ).
Sycamore is one of few schools in the nation, and the only private school in the state of Indiana, where all academics and activities are designed for gifted kids preschool through eighth grade.
The early shareholders were liberal professionals, academics and business leaders who contributed a few thousand rands each as a gesture towards maintaining a tradition of critical journalism in an increasingly harsh political climate.
Although EMP has scaled back its live music programming from the level of its first few years, every April since 2002 it has hosted the three-day Pop Conference, which brings together a few hundred people for a unique conference that presents the perspectives of academics, writers, artists, and fans.
According to his obituary in The Times he was " one of the few classical historians to win respect from academics and a lay readership ".
Although the general view would be that competitive intelligence concepts can be readily found and taught in many business schools around the globe, there are still relatively few dedicated academic programs, majors, or degrees in the field, a concern to academics in the field who would like to see it further researched.
* Division III, generally consisting of smaller schools and a few large institutions that prefer to focus on academics ; schools in this group are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships
Whether the drug has a unique effect on dental health has been questioned by a few academics, who note that the long-term use of several other drugs sometimes cause dental problems.
few and analysts
Most nuclear-weapon analysts agree that " building such a device would pose few technological challenges to reasonably competent terrorists ".
on Graphoanalysis have used very few --- typically less than five --- analysts.
When Palmieri's financial analysts completed their preliminary audit, a few weeks after the takeover, they estimated that Crazy Eddie's inventory was short by $ 40 to $ 50 million.
Many political analysts have theorized that the Party, which has received very few votes in recent California elections, maintains its state ballot status because people join the Party mistakenly believing that they are registering as an " independent ," also known as a " non-partisan " or " decline-to-state " voter.
At the end of the day, Winnicott is one of the few twentieth-century analysts who, in stature, breadth ( and minuteness ) of observations, and theoretical fertility can perhaps legitimately be compared to Sigmund Freud: ' some genius analysts, such as Freud and Winnicott ... learned naturally how to learn from their patients.
In 1999, a few Moroccan and international governments and analysts argued that Prince Moulay Rachid might be better suited for the job of the king than his brother Mohammed VI.
The filing shocked financial analysts ; but a few, such as Gary J. Aguirre, had predicted the filing and had forced Manville to post a bond to guarantee payment to their clients.
The financial and economic crisis that erupted in 2007-arguably the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s-was not foreseen by most of the forecasters, even if a few lone analysts had been crying wolf for some time ( for example, Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller ).
Hatton started well, knocking Collazo down in the very first few seconds of the first round, but it turned out to be one of the toughest fights of his career, with some boxing analysts claiming Collazo won the fight, although many thought Hatton had done enough early on to secure victory, with the knockdown a pivotal point in the fight.
While the takeover / merger was touted in glowing terms in press releases, analysts quietly shared the opinion that, based on the terms of the transaction, Royal had few options and little time left.
Election analysts, however, warned that few LDP candidates were enjoying comfortable leads, and there was still a large number of undecided voters who went for the DPJ in the last election, thus the election results were far from being set.
From the time of the earliest gravitational analysts among Newton's successors, Euler, Clairaut and d ' Alembert, it was recognized that nearly all of the main lunar perturbations could be expressed in terms of just a few angular arguments and coefficients.
The company is reported to be one of the few hedge fund managers that hires its analysts and employees right out of college and from the annual pool of graduates from Ivy League schools such as Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Dartmouth College.
CD Baby has achieved recent value as one of the few sources of information on physical CD sales in the independent music industry, surprising analysts by reporting continued increases in independent CD sales all the way through its most recent report at the end of 2008, apparently showing that independent CD sales move separately from the major label sales reported in the press.
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The small processing and service sectors are largely dominated by just a few prominent local investors.
Although few in number, British, German, Italian, and Spanish investors and farmers helped modernize the country.
Most foreign investors are German and Dutch companies ( see List of corporations in Poznań ), along with a few others.
World Pensions Council ( WPC ) Financial economists have argued that durably low interest rates in most G20 countries will have an adverse impact on the underfunding condition of pension funds as “ without returns that outstrip inflation, pension investors face the real value of their savings declining rather than ratcheting up over the next few years ”
If a few investors do wish to withdraw their money in accordance with the terms allowed, the requests are usually promptly processed, which gives the illusion to all other investors that the fund is solvent.
TVI Express, operated by Tarun Trikha from India has apparently recruited hundreds of thousands of " investors ", very few of whom, it is reported, have recouped any of their investment.
A few decades ago, worldwide, buyers and sellers were individual investors, such as wealthy businessmen, usually with long family histories to particular corporations.
" Thus, many long-term investors, even those who buy and hold for decades, may be classified as speculators, excepting only the rare few who are primarily motivated by income or safety of principal and not eventually selling at a profit.
For example, they indicate that investors could diversify their stock investments, efficiently managing the risk of a few catastrophic corporate failures, whether due to fraud or competition.
Very few regulations or laws stand in place as boundaries for the investors in ecotourism.
Most forms of ecotourism are owned by foreign investors and corporations that provide few benefits to local communities.
In the late 1880s, Fort Payne experienced explosive growth as investors and workers from New England and the North flooded into the region to exploit coal and iron deposits discovered a few years earlier.
Within a few years, however, more investors were found and the line was extended to Wheatland, in Yuba County, bringing an end to this early stage of Lincoln's development.
And because most investors are bullish and invested, one assumes that few buyers remain.
There are more than 50 known and appraised artifacts from the original investors of the town that planned to be featured in Whitesboro in the few years to come.
Financial economists such as World Pensions Council ( WPC ) experts have argued that durably low interest rates in most G20 countries will have an adverse impact on the funding positions of pension funds as “ without returns that outstrip inflation, pension investors face the real value of their savings declining rather than ratcheting up over the next few years ”
After a few early successes developing polarizing filters for sunglasses and photographic filters, Land obtained funding from a series of Wall Street investors for further expansion.
As fundraising has grown over the past few years, so too has the number of investors in the average fund.
Usually, the securities of a publicly traded company are owned by many investors while the shares of a privately held company are owned by relatively few shareholders.
The Puckle Gun drew few investors and never achieved mass production or sales to the British armed forces, mostly because British gunsmiths at the time could not easily make the weapon's many complicated components.
MAG have considered whether to float and invite private investors over the past few years to generate further capital for new developments.
In September 1989, the Chilean government privatized the carrier, selling a majority stake in the company to Icarosan and Scandinavian Airlines, which subsequently sold its stake a few years later to local investors.
During the summer of 1929, Odlum was one of the few industrial moguls to believe that the boom on Wall Street could not continue much longer, and he sold one half of Atlas's holdings, as well as nine million dollars in new securities to investors.
After a few years of preparing monthly reports for potential investors, he was headhunted by Save & Prosper, part of Robert Fleming & Co ..
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