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Glossary
Investment Management
Downside Risk
Downside risk is a risk investors try to assess and quantify when making investment decisions. It attempts to assess how the investment would perform in a series of adverse scenarios. Using statistical models, investors can create outputs that measure expected returns, or expected losses in the case of adverse scenarios.