The move expands Vivendi's presence in a business where the chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, once promised it would reduce its exposure.
The board is thus well advised to discuss with its general counsel ways in which it can reduce its exposure to allegations premised on willful blindness.
Its decision, according to people who have been briefed on the university's thinking, is a strategic one — it wants to reduce its exposure to future private equity deals.
Fannie Mae climbed $5.68, or 9.5percentto to $65.22, after it said that it had taken steps to reduce its exposure to falling interest rates, which would have cut into its profit as home mortgages were refinanced.
IT plans to ultimately reduce its exposure to these loans further, though the bank is reluctant to sell right now since prices for these companies' debt are depressed.
Most of the revenue came from advertising, and in a statement, Reed said it was seeking to reduce its exposure "to advertising markets and cyclicality".
If China really wants to reduce its exposure to the greenback it must allow the yuan to rise.
Since then, things have started to improve somewhat, but it has incentivized Tencent to reduce its exposure in gaming and look for other non-content business segments that generate steady revenue and require less government regulation.
The bank said it had taken disciplinary action against employees involved in the scandal, adding that it had also taken steps to reduce its exposure to complex trading.
It has done so in ways calculated to reduce its exposure to inflation or other problems in the United States.
When asked about its exposure to A.I.G. in the past, Goldman Sachs has said that it used hedging strategies with other investments to reduce its exposure.
