Risk Aversion Is a General Dislike for Risk,and a Preference

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Risk aversion is a general dislike for risk,and a preference for certainty.If risk aversion exists in the market,then investors in general are willing to accept somewhat lower returns on less risky securities.Different investors have different degrees of risk aversion,and the end result is that investors with greater risk aversion tend to hold lower-risk (and therefore lower-expected-return) securities than investors who have more tolerance for risk.

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