risk aversion

noun

1. a strong disinclination to take risks

Example Sentences

“If investors experience a dampening of mood and hence an increase in risk aversion in the fall,” the researchers write, “the price of Treasuries should rise, resulting in higher-than-average realized Treasury returns in the fall. Then when investors’ mood rebounds and their risk aversion diminishes in the spring, Treasury prices fall, resulting in lower-than-average realized returns.”

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And you also have to divide by your personal degree of risk aversion, because each person can tolerate a different amount of risk.

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Even before the boycott, producers in both Hollywood and Israel sensed little appetite to produce or promote their shows, citing a combination of anti-Israel sentiment, antisemitism, risk aversion and fear of negative financial and personal repercussions.

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“Most elected officials in the Democratic Party in New York City have endorsed Zohran. That’s just the fact. And there is, I think, a kind of thinking that is overly shaped by risk aversion and they are sort of thinking about how this will play out in 2026? How will this impact congressional races? How will this impact other elections?”

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The challenge for Democrats, he believes, is to focus on new ways to attract attention — and to overcome their “risk aversion to trying new things.”

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