Skip to Content
On This Page

risk tolerance

Risk tolerance refers to the willingness of an organization to incur risk to gain future reward.

Additional Information


In insurance, risk tolerance may be evidenced by a willingness of the insured to increase deductibles or self-insured retentions. Alternative risk transfer is used by insureds with low risk tolerance and the corresponding desire to reduce the uncertainty arising from purchase of commercial insurance. Compare to Retention Ability.

Related Terms