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''Risk management - investment''.
The surplus of the amount received back from an investment, compared with the initial amount invested.  


Reasons for making an investment, expressed in terms that are designed to appeal to rational decision makers.
To facilitate comparisons, return is usually expressed as a percentage of the initial amount invested, often as an effective annual rate of return.


Especially - but not necessarily - when expressed in financial terms.
When expressed on this basis, the rate of return is also known as 'yield'.
 
 
Returns can be negative.
 
Negative returns mean that the amounts received back from an investment are less than the amounts initially invested.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Ceres]]
*[[Effective annual rate]]
* [[Climate risk]]
*[[Holding period return]]
* [[Climate transition risk]]
*[[Performance spread]]
* [[Event risk]]
*[[Portfolio investment]]
* [[Investment risk]]
*[[Rate of return]]
* [[Risk management]]
*[[Rewarded risk]]
* [[Tangible]]
*[[Risk]]
*[[Total return]]
*[[Yield]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 13:44, 25 June 2016

The surplus of the amount received back from an investment, compared with the initial amount invested.

To facilitate comparisons, return is usually expressed as a percentage of the initial amount invested, often as an effective annual rate of return.

When expressed on this basis, the rate of return is also known as 'yield'.


Returns can be negative.

Negative returns mean that the amounts received back from an investment are less than the amounts initially invested.


See also