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What are the nine risk types that financial institutions identify in their annual reports? What are the risk types for financial instituitions in general is really what I am asking. Credit Risk, Market Risk, Country Risk, etc.

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This discusses the nine risk types that financial institutions identify in their annual reports?

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Investment risk. Investment risk is the chance that your investment value will fall. Standard deviation is commonly used to measure investment risk. It shows a stock or bond's volatility, or the tendency of its price to move up and down from its average. As standard deviation increases, so does investment risk.

Market risk. Market risk is the chance that the entire market where your investment trades will fall in value. Market risk cannot be diversified. ll securities are exposed to market risk including recessions, wars, structural changes in the economy, tax law changes, even changes in consumer preferences. Market risk is sometimes used synonymously with systematic risk.

Interest rate risk. ...

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