The phrase "assume less risk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing financial decisions, investments, or strategies that involve minimizing potential losses or dangers.
Example: "By diversifying our portfolio, we can assume less risk and protect our assets from market volatility."
Alternatives: "take on less risk" or "incur less risk."
(Conforming mortgages meet specific guidelines of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which repurchase the loans and resell them to investors. Because lenders assume less risk, interest rates for conforming loans typically have been lower than for nonconforming).
The state treasurer, John McCormac, said that the funds lost nearly a third of their value during the stock market slump of the past few years and argued that the state could get a better return, and assume less risk, by hiring outside managers.
Hybrid holders assume less risk than equity investors, but often there may be nothing to recover if the venture fails.
When rates decline and the investment climate improves, the spread narrows between interest rates on riskier fixed-income investments and safer ones, like Treasuries, as investors demand less premium for assuming less risk.
Cinergy simply provides the gateway, the pipes, to consumer's homes and therefore assumes less risk.
Look for firms to assume less and less risk since it would not be uncommon to see an officer prosecuted for an infraction that would have been ignored had he not failed in a totally unrelated project.
PHYS 3323 covers similar material while assuming less prior knowledge.
"We are listening more, assuming less".
It is logical to assume that lower doses will pose less risk to breast and heart health, he said, though no studies have proved that.
In the model it is assumed that the individual circumcised man has approximately 60% less risk of infection in each unprotected sex act with infected women.
