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1Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …
2Risk aversion — is a concept in psychology, economics, and finance, based on the behavior of humans (especially consumers and investors) while exposed to uncertainty. Risk aversion is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather …
3Risk assessment — is a common first step in a risk management process. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat. Quantitative risk assessment requires calculations of… …
4Risk factors for breast cancer — Risk factors of breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non preventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary… …
5Risk theory — connotes the study usually by actuaries and insurers of the financial impact on a carrier of a portfolio of insurance policies. For example, if the carrier has 100 policies that insures against a total loss of $1000, and if each policy s chance… …
6Risk premium — A risk premium is the minimum amount of money by which the expected return on a risky asset must exceed the known return on a risk free asset, in order to induce an individual to hold the risky asset rather than the risk free asset. Thus it is… …
7Mean-preserving spread — In probability and statistics, a mean preserving spread (MPS)[1] is a change from one probability distribution A to another probability distribution B, where B is formed by spreading out one or more portions of A s probability density function… …
8Mean Return — 1. In securities analysis, it is the expected value, or mean, of all the likely returns of investments comprising a portfolio. It is also known as expected return . 2. In capital budgeting, it is the mean value of the probability distribution of… …
9risk — risk1 W1S2 [rısk] n [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: risque, from Italian risco] 1.) [U and C] the possibility that something bad, unpleasant, or dangerous may happen = ↑danger →↑gamble, chance ↑chance risk of ▪ the risk …
10risk — [[t]rɪ̱sk[/t]] ♦♦ risks, risking, risked 1) N VAR: oft N of n, N that If there is a risk of something unpleasant, there is a possibility that it will happen. There is a small risk of brain damage from the procedure... In all the confusion, there… …
