The phrase "a preferred risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of insurance or finance to describe an individual or entity that is considered to have a lower likelihood of making a claim or defaulting.
Example: "The insurance company offers lower premiums to clients who are classified as a preferred risk due to their excellent health and driving records."
Alternatives: "a low-risk individual" or "a favorable risk profile".
Yet people preferred risk when the alternative was a certain loss, even if taking the risk implied the chance of an even greater loss.
The study evaluates mental health, perceived risk of developing cancer, preferred risk management options, and motivation for genetic testing.
Research showed that for the presentation of breast cancer risks, women preferred risk information framed over multiple time horizons (10-year-, 20-year and lifetime horizons) to risk information framed at one time point [ 31].
Mrs. Laxmi preferred risking her savings at a private hospital to going to a public hospital where she could have received free treatment.
The intuition is simple: Controlling and outside shareholders both prefer risk reduction, but they have opposite preferences as to the private benefits of control.
International oil companies prefer risk contracts, which are common in most other parts of the world.
The BEIR-VII report (NRC 2006) cited a preferred overall excess cancer risk estimate for solid cancers deaths as 4100 per 100,000 persons per Gray (4% excess mortality) for males, and 6100 per 100,000 persons per Gray (6% excess mortality) for females.
Exposure is preferred to risk, since risk is a function of the hazard and the exposure to that hazard.
Hill et al. found when presented with absolute risk of heart attack in the next five years, most patients preferred a risk thermometer [ 24].
Individuals may be risk-averse (preferring lower risk options when comparing options with identical expected value (EV)), risk-neutral, or risk-seeking (preferring higher to lower risk options).
We show that when the order flow has a linear hazard ratio, the limit order book is preferred by risk neutral customers.
