Old English freond friend, present participle of freogan to love, to favor, from Proto-Germanic *frijojanan to love (cf. Old Norse frÃ¦ndi, Old Frisian friund, Middle High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds friend, all alike from present participle forms).
Best Answer: Risk and more importantly return, are INVESTING terms, NOT insurance terms. Risk is the chance you take of losing your money. Return is the amount of money you GAIN. So they are opposites-the greater the risk, the greater the potential return. Think of it like going to the horse track.
The relationship between the amount of risk that. you are willing to take and the potential return on. your investment is known as your ârisk profileâ. In. general, investment funds that earn high returns, such as Growth, carry the highest risk. Not only. can the rate of return fluctuate, but the value of.