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Investment Risk Assessment Form

Investment Risk Assessment Form

Assess an investor’s risk profile — knowledge, comfort, reaction to loss and timeframe — so advice matches their true appetite.

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Description

An investment risk assessment form establishes how much risk a client can genuinely handle, before a penny is invested. Matching investments to real risk tolerance is both good advice and a regulatory expectation, so capturing their knowledge, comfort and reaction to loss turns a vague sense of ‘cautious’ or ‘adventurous’ into a documented, defensible risk profile.

It captures the investor’s name, their investment knowledge and comfort with risk, and how they’d react if their investments dropped 20% in value. Their investment timeframe, preferred investment type and any additional comments complete a profile you can build suitable, well-matched recommendations from.

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Form fields

Everything the Investment Risk Assessment Form above collects — 7 fields, so you can see exactly what it captures before you make it your own.

Investment Risk Profile

Investor Name
Name
How would you describe your investment knowledge?
Single-Select
How comfortable are you with investment risk?
Scale
If your investments dropped 20% in value, what would you do?
Single-Select
Investment timeframe (years)
Short Answer
Preferred investment type
Short Answer
Additional comments or preferences?
Long Answer

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Common questions about the Investment Risk Assessment Form — what it captures, when to use it, and how to make it your own.

What is an investment risk assessment form?

It’s a form used to gauge an investor’s risk tolerance. It captures their knowledge, comfort with risk, reaction to loss and timeframe, so advisers can match investments to what the client can genuinely handle — sound advice and a documented, defensible risk profile.

What does the form capture?

The investor’s name, their level of investment knowledge and comfort with risk, and how they’d react if their investments dropped 20% in value. Their investment timeframe, preferred investment type, and any additional comments or preferences complete the risk profile.

When would it be used?

Before making any investment recommendations, and periodically as circumstances change. Establishing risk tolerance up front means advice is suitable from the outset, and reassessing over time keeps a client’s portfolio matched to their appetite as their life and markets shift.

Who is this form for?

Financial advisers, wealth managers and investment firms, and the clients being assessed. It suits any practice that must match recommendations to a client’s risk tolerance and wants that assessment captured consistently and on record, for good advice and compliance.

Why ask how they’d react to a 20% drop?

How someone says they’d react to a real loss reveals their true risk tolerance far better than a self-label. It surfaces the client who calls themselves adventurous but would panic-sell — so you can advise realistically and avoid putting them in investments they’d bail out of.

Is this form free to use?

Yes — it’s free. Create a Fun Forms account, customize the questions to match your process, restyle it to your brand, and embed it on your website with no coding. Risk profiles then arrive documented, ready to advise from.

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