When Risks Are Shared Across Many Different Assets or People

question 80

Multiple Choice

When risks are shared across many different assets or people, reducing the impact of any particular risk on any one individual, it is called:

• A)diversification.
• B)risk pooling.
• C)risk aversion.
• D)risk analysis.

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Definitions:

Standard Normal Distribution

A probability distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, represented by the bell curve.

Z-scores

Standard scores that indicate how many standard deviations an element is from the mean, used to compare data points across different scales or distributions.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in statistical analysis.

Less Than

A mathematical expression used to compare two values, indicating that one value is smaller than the other.