Risk management

Risk management

The process of identifying and evaluating risks and selecting and managing techniques to adapt to risk exposures.

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Risk management. Risk management is a set of strategies for analyzing potential risks and instituting policies and procedures to deal with them. The work of assessing the possibilities, setting priorities, and finding cost-effective solutions is also described as business continuity planning.

In a business environment, some risks, such as economic pressures or technology meltdowns, are universal while others are unique to a particular venture or physical location.

Large companies may use a combination of strategies to manage risk, including buying insurance, creating redundant systems, diversifying physical locations or core businesses, and establishing other hedges.

For an individual investor, risk can be managed in several ways: insuring at least a portion of your portfolio, allocating your assets across classes, diversifying your holdings, and hedging with derivative products.