GDP risk is a long term risk.

But this is not a long term risk worth taking.

Instead, it relies on value at risk (VaR) measures that link risk to standard notions of short term market volatility.

Buying time for reform to work requires socialization of short term risk.

The term risk free asset has become an oxymoron in contemporary Europe.

The financial crisis reduced private financiers risk appetite, making long term exposures unappealing.

Deep poverty is but one risk factor for toxic stress and its long term consequences.

With each additional risk factor, the odds of long term damage to brain architecture increase.

It also promotes the culture of risk management and long term strategic thinking among companies.

The relatively low interest rates on both short term and long term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns.

The group recommends that the standardized disclosure should give the consumer an understandable measure of long term risk.

For the sake of fame and glory now, athletes will be tempted to risk their long term health.

In the medium term, this trend will continue to pose an inflation risk and undermine living standards worldwide.

Like banks, all these financial institutions are subject to liquidity or rollover risk the risk of going belly up if their creditors do not rollover their short term credit lines.

Disaster risk management, rather than ad hoc humanitarian issues, should become an integral part of our long term development policies.

Already, too many of our economy s difficulties, including worrisome trends in youth joblessness and long term unemployment, risk becoming structurally embedded.

The greatest risk to bond holders is that inflation will rise again, pushing up the interest rate on long term bonds.

The time has come for a better understanding of the connection between environmental and natural resource risk and sovereign credit risk. Only then will investors, rating agencies, and governments be able to plan over the medium to long term with the knowledge needed to ensure long term economic growth and stability.

In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

Only these institutions are capable of preventing the elite capture and insider rents that are putting global prosperity at long term risk.

Yet, at least in the medium term, that presence implies a significant risk of inciting a global confrontation between China and the US.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

So, with no near term risk of inflation or depression, why have gold prices started to rise sharply again in the last few months?

If an enterprise knowingly damages the interests of its stakeholders, it can risk negatively affecting its own ability to produce long term shareholder value.

The notion of place of business was well known and yet another definition of the term entailed the risk of fragmentation of the law.

Similarly, positioning the IMF as a general risk insurer by introducing precautionary credit lines above normal access limits would be compatible neither with its mission to provide financial assistance on deliberately non risk adjusted terms nor with the current system of refinancing short term Fund credit through risk free official reserves.

And, with slow growth, subdued inflation, near zero short term interest rates, and more QE, longer term interest rates in most advanced economies remain low (with the exception of the eurozone periphery, where sovereign risk remains relatively high).

As the authors point out, for insurers to even consider a long term policy they must have the freedom to charge premiums that reflects risk.

These markets can become a strong source of financing for longer term domestic investment, including in infrastructure, thereby reducing currency risk for borrowers and investors.

Yet the desire to hold assets that avoid the medium term risks associated with the business cycle has overwhelmed this long run fundamental risk factor.

The ECB s treatment of all such debt as equally powerful sources of back up liquidity now trumps any analysis of differences in long term sovereign risk.

They must begin by identifying not only what is undermining Europe s competitiveness today, but also those factors that are putting its long term prospects at risk.

The outrageous increases in financial executives remuneration in recent years, which cannot be attributed to increased productivity, have exacerbated the financial sector s focus on the short term, while worsening its risk exposure in the longer term, thereby exacerbating systemic vulnerability.

One major factor that induced excessive risk taking is that firms standard pay arrangements reward executives for short term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.

Investors willingness to make capital available over the longer term for infrastructure development, job creation, and economic growth depends on their perceptions of various kinds of risk.

One possibility is that they worry about borrowers credit risk, though this would have to be extremely high to justify the complete cessation of long term lending.

The Senior Political Affairs Officer would coordinate and direct the production of short and longer term analytical papers, briefings, estimates, threat and risk assessments and other research projects.

A prolonged and sustained central bank policy of purchasing ever increasing quantities of long term assets is essential to encourage a wary financial sector to use some of its risk bearing capacity for its proper purpose reducing the risk burden on entrepreneurship and enterprise.

All these arguments apply only to long term investors who can afford to wait out another 40 decline in values and keep their money invested until perceived risk drops.

The resulting uncertainty could trigger more volatility, especially in bond markets, potentially impeding economic recovery (for example, by pushing up long term mortgage rates) or augmenting future inflation risk.

If America s Democrats lose in the mid term elections this November, there is a risk of persistent fiscal deficits as Republicans veto tax increases while Democrats veto spending cuts.

But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long term risky investments.

For the purpose of this Convention, the term exceptional risk means those conditions that expose United Nations personnel and associated personnel to loss of life or to physical injury.

The point is not to suggest that there is one right answer, but rather that investment strategy and payout decisions should take into account the longer term dimensions of risk.