at risk

at risk definition - finance
Exposed to the danger of loss. The concept of at risk is used in limited partnerships in which the investor deducting a loss must prove to the Internal Revenue Service that there was a chance of never realizing any profit and that the investment may be lost as well.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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