Finance The contribution of an asset to the volatility of a portfolio.

Finance Partition of the universal set of risk measure so that projects that are in the same risk class can be compared.

Computers, Computer Science A set of procedures to identify risks to aspects of the system. These aspects may be hardware, security, software, physical installation, or any area where a threat is perceived. As well as identifying the risks, the practitioners must assess them, and prepare contingency measures to counter the risk. The aim is to reduce the risk to an acceptable level, but at an acceptable cost.

Indemnity insurance compensates the beneficiaries of the policies for their actual economic losses, up to the limiting amount of the insurance policy. It generally requires the insured to prove the amount of its loss before it can recover. Recovery is limited to the amount of the provable loss even if the face amount of the policy is higher. This is in contrast to, for example, life insurance, where the amount of the beneficiary's economic loss is irrelevant. The death of the person whose life is insured for reasons not excluded from the policy obligate the insurer to pay the entire policy amount to the beneficiary.

Finance Excess return on the risky asset that is the difference between expected return on risky assets and the return on risk-free assets.

Finance Excess return over the risk free rate, for holding equity.

sharing with another party the burden of loss or the benefit of gain, from a risk, and the measures to reduce a risk

allowance for bad debts that a bank keeps in order to protect against country risk

Finance Additional risk borne by the firm's stockholders when a firm is financed with debt as well as equity.