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 return on any investment with such low risk that the risk is considered to not exist. A common example of a risk-free return is the return on a U.S. Treasury security. The risk-free return exists in order to compensate the investor for the temporary tying up of his/her capital, even though it is not put at risk.