More recently, the energy sector has come under stress.

That would be an advantage over proposals to restrict redemptions only with when funds come under stress, the report added.

Analysts say Dougan's warning on profits points to more writedowns on asset classes that have come under stress in the credit crisis.

The health ingredient in wine, resveratrol, is created when the vines come under stress, typically towards the autumn after a dehydrating summer.

But the reefs have come under stress in recent years, due to climate change impacts and other human-induced pressures including over-fishing and pollution.

Tukuitonga said the Pasifika community was already worried about public backlash, the index family having come under stress and bullying since going into quarantine.

That strategy came under stress in 2008 when concerns about counterparty and liquidity risk were rife.

Should clear signs emerge of the country's banking sector coming under stress, then that is a different matter and intervention becomes a real possibility.