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.
(p. 99) The greater the standard deviation of an investment: a. The lower the return B . The greater the risk c. The lower the risk d. The greater the return AACSB: Analytic BLOOMS: Evaluation LOD: 2 30. (p. 101) The difference between standard deviation and value at risk is: a. Nothing, they are two names for the same thing b. Value at risk is a more common measure in financial circles than is standard deviation C . Standard deviation reflects the spread of possible outcomes where value at risk focuses on the value of the worst outcome d. Value at risk is expected value times the standard deviation AACSB: Reflective Thinking BLOOMS: Comprehension LOD: 2 5-9