BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Preferred Risk
- somebody considered by an insurance company to be less likely to collect on a policy than the average person, for example, a nonsmoker
Additional Resources
- Who's Letting Banks Invest in Fannie and Freddie Preferred Stock?
- Thomas Kirchner submits: From Sovereign SOV to JPMorgan JPM banks make headlines with writedowns on their holdings of Fannie’s FNM and Freddie’s FRE preferred stock, but the obvious question of how stock ever got onto banks’ balance sheets is only asked by Felix Salmon - and even he doesn’t...
- External links 2008-08-28
- Genesys Wealth revolutionises risk insurance selling.
- Oct 12, 2006 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Genesys Wealth Advisers hopes a new arrangement with its preferred insurers will revolutionise the selling of risk insurance in Australia. Col Fullager, risk manager at Genesys Wealth Advisers, sa Oct 12, 2006 (Money Management -...
- Research articles 2006-10-12
- Prudential Bache Commodities to serve as Clark Brands' Preferred Vendor.(Clark Oil Co. contracts with Prudential Bache Commodities )(Brief article)
- Clark Brands has selected Prudential Bache Commodities as a Preferred Vendor for risk management and hedging services. As a Preferred Vendor, Prudential Bache will be recommended by Clark to those Clark Licensees seeking to develop or enhance a risk management or hedging program for their petroleum...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Advent Claymore Convertible Securities & Income Fund: Risk and Reward
- Asif Suria submits: Preferred shares are a special class of investments that have a higher claim to a company's assets than common stock but do not have the voting rights that common stock holders have. They also tend to pay a higher dividend than common stock and companies would normally...
- External links 2009-05-16
- Actimize Chooses IBM as a Preferred Partner to Help Deliver On Demand Business Solutions to Meet Financial Services Risk Mitigation Needs
- Actimize, the leading provider of advanced solutions for financial services risk mitigation, today announced it has achieved "industry optimized" status for the financial services market in IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks and has chosen IBM as a preferred business partner. Actimize can now take advantage of IBM's sales, marketing and technical...
- Research articles 2005-08-03
- CIGNA And ING Medical To Sell PPO Coverage To Small Employers.(Cigna HealthCare, ING Medical Risk Solutions)
- CIGNA HealthCare, Bloomfield, Conn., announced it has teamed up with ING Medical Risk Solutions, an Atlanta-based subsidiary of the ING Group, to sell preferred provider organization coverage to sell-insured businesses with fewer than 500 employees. CIGNA HealthCare, Bloomfield, Conn., announced it has teamed up with ...
- Research articles 1998-06-08
- Fitch Affirms BlackRock Preferred & Corporate Income Strategies Fund's Preferred Stock at 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed BlackRock Preferred & Corporate Income Strategies Fund's auction-rate preferred stock series M7 and T7 at 'AAA'. The preferred stock totals $68,250,000. The rating affirmation follows redemption of 2,730 shares of the above mentioned series in the total amount of $68,250,000 or 50% of...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Fitch Affirms BlackRock Preferred Opportunity Trust's Preferred Stock at 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed BlackRock Preferred Opportunity Trust's auction-rate preferred stock series T7, W7, and R7 at 'AAA'. The preferred stock totals $110,400,000. The rating affirmation follows redemption of 4,416 shares of the above mentioned series in the total amount of $110,400,000, or 50% of the total...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Fitch Affirms BlackRock Preferred & Equity Advantage Trust's Preferred Stock at 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed BlackRock Preferred and Equity Advantage Trust's auction-rate preferred stock series T7, W7, R7, and F7 at 'AAA'. The preferred stock totals $231,000,000. The rating affirmation follows redemption of 9,240 shares of the above mentioned series in the total amount of $231,000,000, or 50%...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Fitch Affirms BlackRock Preferred Income Strategies Fund's Preferred Stock at 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed BlackRock Preferred Income Strategies Fund's auction-rate preferred stock series M7, T7, W7, W28, TH7, TH28, and F7 at 'AAA'. The preferred stock totals $275,000,000. The rating affirmation follows redemption of 11,000 shares of the above mentioned series in the total amount of $275,000,000,...
- Research articles 2008-05-27
- Don't Take the No-Risk, No-Growth Option
- Avoiding risk is the most effective way to make your business irrelevant, redundant and bankrupt. Unfortunately, it appears that, in the face of the recession, risk avoidance has become the preferred strategy of most British companies. Last week, the insurer RSA and the Future...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- S&P Rts Preferred Physicians Med Risk Retention Group
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Standard & Poor's CreditWire 10/7/98--Standard & Poor's today assigned its triple-'Bpi' insurer financial strength rating to Preferred Physicians Medical Risk Retention Group.
- Research articles 1998-10-07
- PPO growth slowing down as plans face consolidation. (preferred provider organizations) (Risk Management/Employee Benefits)
- PPO Growth Slowing Down As Plans Face Consilidation Preferred provider organizations are facing a period of consolidation following five years of explosive growth, according to the Marion Merrill Dow Managed Care Digest for 1990. However, in contrPPO Growth Slowing Down As Plans...
- Research articles 1991-03-04
- GlobalOptions Group's Hyperion Risk Joins Forces with BNSF Railway to Combat Insurance Fraud
- NEW YORK -- GlobalOptions Group, Inc. (OTCBB: GLOI), a leading provider of domestic and international risk management services, today announced that its recently-acquired Hyperion Risk unit has entered into a formal agreement to serve as a preferred provider of investigative services to BNSF Railway. Hyperion Risk will perform surveillance and...
- Research articles 2006-09-29
- Starting All Over Again What do businessmen do when they cash out of ventures they painstakingly built over the years? A few retire, a few plot a trip to the Bahamas. BT, however, stumbles upon a clutch of entrepreneurs that has preferred to start all ove
- If an entrepreneur is defined as "a person who organises, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture", what do you call one who organises, operates and assumes the risk for another business venture all over again, after cashing out of If an entrepreneur is defined as "a person...
- Research articles 2007-06-17
- Quanta Capital Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option from Series A Preferred Offering
- HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: QNTA), a company that provides specialty insurance, specialty reinsurance, and risk assessment and consulting services through its subsidiaries, announced today that the underwriters of its recent 10.25% series A preferred share offering have exercised their over-allotment option and have purchased an additional...
- Research articles 2006-01-11
- Profit from Obama's TARP 2 with Preferred ETFs
- Thomas Smicklas submits: President Obama cannot permit continued failure and a loud "no confidence" vote directed towards the financial sector. He will act boldly, probably this week, to announce a very large and very public TARP 2 initiative designed to restore confidence and stability. If, indeed, he does act, it...
- External links 2009-02-02
- Quebecor World Declares Dividend on its Preferred Shares.
- MONTREAL, CANADA, Feb 13, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- The Board of Directors of Quebecor World Inc. (TSX:IQW) (NYSE:IQW), declared today a dividend of CDN$0.3845 per share on Series 3 Preferred Shares and CDN$0.43125 on Series 5 Preferred Shares. The dividends are payable on March 1st,...
- Research articles 2007-02-13
- Fitch Rates RMR Dividend Capture Fund's Preferred Shares 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AAA' rating to RMR Dividend Capture Fund's issue of 400 series F auction preferred shares. The preferred shares in aggregate principal amount of $10,000,000 are offered in $25,000 denominations and pay dividends determined through a Dutch auction on a seven-day cycle. The...
- Research articles 2008-02-11
- Fitch Affirms Nuveen Real Estate Income Fund's Preferred Shares 'AAA'
- NEW YORK -- Fitch affirms 'AAA' rating assigned to the taxable auction preferred shares series M, T, W, TH and F issued by Nuveen Real Estate Income Fund in the total amount of $72,000,000. The rating affirmation follows proportional redemption of preferred shares of the above mentioned fund in the...
- Research articles 2008-05-20
