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amount at risk

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noun

Insurance.
  1. the difference between the reserve of a life-insurance policy and its face amount.


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The amount at risk represents about one third of total deliverable FX turnover and is up from $1.9 trillion from three years earlier when the last FX survey was carried out.

From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022

The actual amount at risk is relatively small — a total of $4.1 billion in federal grants to governments and law enforcement agencies across the country, and far less to the nine jurisdictions named Friday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2017

The firm in filings and an October investor presentation disclosed the net amount at risk from its European bonds after hedges.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 29, 2011

The short-term hedges matured before the bonds, meaning the net amount at risk could increase if investors lost confidence in either European sovereigns or MF Global and new hedges couldn’t be bought.

From BusinessWeek • Nov. 29, 2011

In cases where the correct figures were not obtainable, I have assumed the cost to have been 1-1/3 per cent. of the mean amount at risk.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various