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risk premiums

risk premiums is the plural of risk premium.

Meaning of risk premium

Noun

risk premium (plural risk premiums)

  1. (investing) 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.)
    • The risk premium of equities can turn negative according to proxy measures, as has often occurred over the decades.
    1. (investing) An increase in the interest rate of a bond or loan according to the financial risk.
      • The loan shark added another 10% as the risk premium for an especially dubious borrower.

Questions about risk premiums

What is risk premiums the plural of?
Risk premiums is the plural of risk premium.

Words near risk premiums in the dictionary

  1. risk on
  2. risk one's life
  3. risk one's life and limb
  4. risk one's neck
  5. risk premium
  6. risk premiums
  7. risk production
  8. risk profile
  9. risk profiles
  10. risk societies
  11. risk society

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