An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

The September summit should endorse national and international measures to direct foreign investment to low income countries through such measures as investment guarantee schemes, tax and other incentives, revised risk rating and similar arrangements.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

With current treatments, patients with low and intermediate risk disease have an excellent prognosis with cure rates above 90 for low risk and 70 90 for intermediate risk.

This appears to be a low risk activity.

This volume of assets allows the Fund to expand its investment frontier and requires it to build up a risk control mechanism, to control comprehensively not only investment risk but also operational risk and technology risk.

Low investment and a deteriorating primary education system? Not to worry.

Under the Convention, the risk of third party litigation appears low.

But gold is also a high risk and highly volatile investment.

Unsurprisingly, investment in renewable energy has fallen to a four year low.

The risk is that Lin s warning will be interpreted as an argument for sticking with an investment led model, which would imply more low return public sector projects and excess capacity in selected industries.

At the same time, deregulation and competitive forces in the energy industry have led to private sector research and development investment being redirected from longer term, basic research towards low risk, market oriented research.

The new risk stratification will be based on the new INRGSS staging system, age (dichotomized at 18 months), tumor grade, N myc amplification, unbalanced 11q aberration, and ploidy into four pre treatment risk groups very low, low, intermediate, and high risk.

Before the crisis, some thought risk premia for developing countries were irrationally low.

Current low interest rates do not cover the risk that banks would take.

However, a low dose of hydrochlorothiazide does not seem to increase the risk.

The borrower knows the risk is high, but tells the lender it is low.

Nevertheless, although gold is not an appropriate hedge against inflation risk or exchange rate risk, it may be a very good investment.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

Because investment is so low, net capital exports from Germany are nearly 4 of GDP.

As long as interest rates remain low, there is no downward pressure on public investment.

Moreover, low interest rate policies transfer inflation risk to all savers and to future generations.

Low health literacy reduces the success of treatment and increases the risk of medical error.

Thanks to decades of low investment in statistical capacity, no one trusts the Greek government s figures.

When countries suffer from low investment demand, freeing up capital inflows does not do much good.

Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real estate bubble.

An accelerated public investment program that avoids low return projects is not out of the question.

The project will assist the Investment Management Service in mitigating exposure to various risk factors.

The chief will be responsible for risk control of the Fund's investments as a whole in terms of portfolio risk, operational risk and compliance risk, and will plan and perform the oversight of performance measurement, investment risk analysis and operational risk analysis, including risk arising from sub adviser and service provider relationships.

This could be achieved by monetary and fiscal policy low interest rates and large state investment programs.

China s investment in US government securities and other sovereign debt will continue to yield extremely low returns.

But European companies remain hesitant, despite low interest rates, keeping private investment well below its previous peak.

Registered investment companies and investment advisers are required to adopt strong compliance controls, managed by a chief risk officer and administered by a chief compliance officer.

Low inflation, no currency risk, decreased transaction costs, and greater transparency have made the euro a success.

Another 8 trillion are housing mortgages, which also carry little risk, given low loan to value ratios.

In Brazil, low savings and various institutional impediments keep interest rates high and investment low, while the educational system does not serve significant parts of the population well.

The country s investment rate now stands at more than 50 a clear reflection of China s low capital efficiency.

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

(d) Alternative investments offer the opportunity for an enhanced risk return profile for a pension investment portfolio.

At the same time, since returns to capital are kept low by high wages, very little investment occurs. The excess of savings over investment flows abroad as capital exports.

A state of the art system will allow the Investment Management Service to rapidly and accurately handle complex investment data and analyse the portfolio risk and its performance.

As the accumulation and deepening of capital accelerate growth, they perpetuate the low efficiency investment pattern and stimulate overproduction.

We believe that the best investment in our collective future is to scale up the green, low carbon economy. It is an investment with enormous potential for prosperity and profit.

Certainly, the vast majority of economists, investment analysts, financial firms, and regulators failed to see the growing risk.

The New Yorkers still live in their own homes, but now they have spread their investment risk worldwide.