Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RISK MEASUREMENT UNIT (RMU) - A defined quantity or unit of risk. Quantities of risk may be defined for...
  
  
• RISK PREMIUM - A risk premium is one way to measure the risk you'd take in buying a specific investment...
  
  
• RISK PREMIUM APPROACH - A common approach for tactical asset allocation to determine the relative valua...
  
  
• RISK PROFILE - The slope of a line graphed according to the value of an underlying asset on the x-axis ...
  
  
• RISK RATIO - Some investors and financial analysts try to estimate the risk an investment poses by spec...
  
  
• RISK SEEKER - Investor who likes to take risk and is even willing to pay for it. Also called risk lover...
  
  
• RISK TOLERANCE - An investor's ability or willingness to accept declines in the prices of investments w...
  
  
• RISK TRANSFER - The shifting of risk through insurance or securitization of debt because of risk aversi...
  
  
• RISK TRANSFORMATION - Is the result of an effective hedge. Here, price, interest, or currency level ris...
  
  
• RISK TYPES - Include the following: agency bankruptcy basis capital restrictions commodity compliance c...