risk averse

risk averse definition - finance
The investing style of someone who is afraid of losing money, and who therefore makes only conservative investments. A risk-averse investor is someone who is willing to put up with less return on his or her investment in order to sleep easier at night.

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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