Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• RISK AVERSION - The dislike of risk. For risk averse investors, the pain from losing $1 is greater than...
  
  
• RISK CLASSES - Groups of projects that have approximately the same amount of risk.
  
  
• RISK CONTROLLED ARBITRAGE - A self-funding, self-hedged series of transactions that generally use mortg...
  
  
• RISK FACTOR - In arbitrage pricing theory or the multibeta capital asset pricing model, the set of comm...
  
  
• RISK GRADE - Assessment of a loan's relative risk with respect to its probability of default. Risk Grad...
  
  
• RISK INDEXES - Categories of risk used to calculate fundamental beta, including (1) market variability,...
  
  
• RISK LOVER - A person willing to accept lower expected returns on prospects with higher amounts of risk...
  
  
• RISK MANAGEMENT - Controlling the probability, and/or the severity, of a potential adverse event so tha...
  
  
• 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...