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risk premium

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables
risk premi-um
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The return on investment in excess of the (theoretical) risk-free rate of return that an investment is expected to yield: the extra benefit that an investor either gets or hopes to get in exchange for taking a risk. (Often measured by proxy measures such as aggregate corporate earnings compared with interest rates on certain benchmark bonds that stand in for risk-free securities.)

noun

The return on investment in excess of the (theoretical) risk-free rate of return that an investment is expected to yield: the extra benefit that an investor either gets or hopes to get in exchange for taking a risk. (Often measured by proxy measures such as aggregate corporate earnings compared with interest rates on certain benchmark bonds that stand in for risk-free securities.)

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

risk premiums (plural)

Questions

What does risk premium mean?
The return on investment in excess of the (theoretical) risk-free rate of return that an investment is expected to yield: the extra benefit that an investor either gets or hopes to get in exchange for taking a risk. (Often measured by proxy measures such as aggregate corporate earnings compared with interest rates on certain benchmark bonds that stand in for risk-free securities.)

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