Sentence examples for Risky funds from inspiring English sources

Risky funds tend to get As and Bs in bull markets and Ds and Fs in bear markets.

"But these are incredibly risky funds.

Heart of Africa's closure should act as a warning to investors to review their portfolios and weed out the small, risky funds while they still can.

In justifying his drive to require hedge funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency's chairman, William Donaldson, has expressed concern that small investors are increasingly exposed to risky funds through their pension plans.

These risky funds often are guilty of inadequate disclosure of costs, overvaluation of holdings to goose reported performance and manager pay, and cozy ties between funds and brokers that often shortchange investors.

According to Mark Iwry, the benefits tax counsel for the Treasury Department, employers are encouraged to put savings of automatic enrollees into a balanced fund, rather than a more risky stock fund or a low-return money market fund.

They are a handy prop for these governments' risky fund-raising ventures (see article).

"The levy is intended to encourage banks to move to less risky funding profiles," the Treasury said in a statement.

Banks with risky funding models – ie a reliance on wholesale markets – will have to pay proportionally more.

That was a complicated disaster, caused by bad lending, bad investments, risky funding structures, low capital, and mergers and acquisitions.

The FSA, once heralded as a model super-regulator, has egg on its face for failing to do anything about Northern Rock's risky funding strategy.