Talk:risk appetite

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risk appetite

Another doubtful entry from the RFC sludge pile. Ƿidsiþ 12:26, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

There's risk tolerance by the same contributor. I don't know. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

They are virtually synonymous. To me risk tolerance seems SoP. I'm not as sure about risk appetite, because if the two terms are always used synonymously, the senses of appetite do not include "tolerance" in any definition I've yet seen.

In the kind of rational setting suggested by three mutually redundant definitions, decision-makers do not have an absolute preference ('appetite') for risk, rather than a tolerance for risk associated with higher expected returns. DCDuring TALK 15:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Keep. I looked at Google translate, and it seems the translations are not word-for-word. The Czech translation "ochota riskovat" (willingness to risk) seems to be much more common (and actually attested) than the word-for-word translation "rizikový apetit". See also http://www.dict.cc/?s=risk+appetite for translations to German. So this will be useful at least for translations. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

• Keep. I recently watched a documentary on the history of the 401k, where a number of financial professionals were throwing this phrase around with abandon. bd2412 T 23:21, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
• Keep, but merge the definitions (all 3 of them). There's no real difference between them. Now it is as if we copied the definitions of OED, Webster, Collins etc. as separate senses. --Hekaheka (talk) 23:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

  I definitely agree that these should be merged into one comprehensive sense; they merely make unimportant distinctions. bd2412 T 15:48, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Kept, senses merged into one. Further improvement to this entry is beyond the scope of RfD. bd2412 T 16:07, 2 September 2014 (UTC)