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Geographic risk

Geographic risk

Risk that arises when an issuer issues policies concentrated within certain geographic areas, such as the risk of concentrating their coverage in hurricane or earthquake prone regions.
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Geographic Risk

The risk to an investment in a specific geographic area. Specifically, it refers to the possibility that a natural disaster to which an area is prone will negatively impact an investment. For example, a company pumping oil in the Gulf of Mexico carries a geographic risk that a hurricane will destroy its infrastructure. See also: Country risk.
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OYO's further plans include developing multi-point sensors to place in danger areas found by the AI model, providing next generation disaster prevention information services, geographic risk assessments focused on earthquakes, and disaster risk reporting services specific to businesses use.
It will also spread the geographic risk for both companies over a larger area.
Carillion's ex-chairman Philip Green, said the board had been trying to mitigate the "geographic risk" in the run-up to the company's collapse on Jan.
The loan books of each of the Fitch-rated Bahraini banks have different geographic risk profiles as a result of their disparate business models and strategies.
Private equity likes the long-term revenue flows from 10-year contracts with the operators, the growth potential from sharing infrastructure and the diversification of geographic risk."
Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., set out to find out how demographic and geographic risk factors are associated with ES.
These positives are partially offset by Optima's relative lack of operational scale and geographic risk concentration, the agency noted.
The ubiquitous nature of the LCMV reservoir and documented infections in numerous localities in the United States and internationally imply widespread geographic risk for LCMV infection (7).
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