risk-on
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift low-risk investments to more profitable high-risk investments.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In a risk-on environment, they then sell those currencies and use the proceeds to buy risk assets with greater price appreciation potential. In a risk-off environment, they're compelled to sell their risk assets and buy back those funding currencies that they previously sold."
- "The higher the value of c1 (i.e., the higher the value of α), the faster the transition from a risk-off to a risk-on mode."
- "Capital flows have, however, continued to exhibit their well-known volatility, given the risk-on and risk-off scenario driven by investors' perception of the macroeconomic and financial developments in the source countries rather than the recipient countries."