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Risk is an inevitable side effect of the effort to make more money than the next guy. To be sure, money makes money and this process can be carried out without any significant measure of risk: All an investor needs to do is buy United States Treasury bonds, generally considered to be riskfree investments. The price paid for such an investment is generally a boring rate of return.
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Roman, S. (2004). Introduction. In: Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9005-1_1
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