The phrase "ability to underwrite" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, insurance, or risk assessment, where one discusses the capacity to evaluate and assume financial risk.
Example: "The candidate demonstrated a strong ability to underwrite complex insurance policies, ensuring that all potential risks were thoroughly assessed."
Alternatives: "capacity to assess risk" or "skill in underwriting".
The ability to underwrite stocks and bonds and to offer strategic advice would level the playing field and increase fee income.
Prokhorov's ability to underwrite an estimated $100 million in payroll and more than $80 million in luxury taxes facilitated the deal.
Managing investors' money is more important to Merrill Lynch than investment banking, and Citigroup relies more on its reputation with consumers than on its ability to underwrite stocks and bonds.
If the size of the rescue fund were to increase enough to protect Spain and Italy, investors might start to look askance at France's ability to underwrite its share, analysts said.
Now, as Russia wrestles with its own economic woes, the Russian government's ability to underwrite Transnistria – along with other disputed territories such as Abkhazia and South Ossetia – is under increasing pressure.
Since becoming chief executive last year, Mr. Harrison has spent much of his time trying to change Chase's status as a technology laggard, with a struggling online banking business and little ability to underwrite initial public offerings.
The bidders have provided a letter from Citigroup, Credit Suisse and DBS Bank stating that the banks were "highly confident" of their ability to fully underwrite the debt financing of the deal, Focus Media said in the statement.
Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to disentangle adverse selection and moral hazard, I find no compelling support for extensive cream-skimming of public option by private insurers despite their ability to fully underwrite risk.
The anti-tax agenda has substantially diminished the ability of states to underwrite the cost of higher education.One of America's most important innovations was the creation of great public universities.
Fearful that negative research reports would curtail their ability to land opportunities to underwrite initial public offerings, some firms had their deal makers review analysts' work, and tied the analysts' compensation to income from deal-making in the industries they cover.
Meanwhile, the ability of the major labels to underwrite big-budget recording contracts and to get the product into bricks and mortar stores simply won't matter as much given the low cost of digital distribution and the ability to make high-quality recordings on the cheap.
