risk/reward tradeoff

risk/reward tradeoff definition - finance
An investment principle that says an investment must deliver a higher potential return as compensation for increased risk.

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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