Average market risk premium Portugal 2024| Statista

Market risk premiums (MRP) measure the expected return on investment an investor looks to make. For potential investors looking to add to their portfolio, the perfect scenario for a risk-based investment would be a high rate of return with as small a risk as possible. Unfortunately for investors, this is unlikely to happen as average market risks increase due to the added risk of investment. There are ***** main concepts to MRP’s, including required market risk premiums, historical market risk premiums and expected market risk premiums. In 2024, average market risk premiums in Portugal decreased from the previous year to reach *** percent.

Greece and Turkey highest MRP in Europe

In 2023, Portugal, compared to other European countries had a relatively higher market risk premium. Countries with the highest MRP and therefore of the highest investment risk included Turkey and Ukraine. At the other end of the scale was Switzerland, whose market risk premiums averaged half of those seen in Ukraine.

Risk free rates

Risk free rates are closely associated to market risk premiums and measure the rate of return on an investment with no risk. As there is no risk associated, the rate of return is lower than that of an MRP. Average market risk free rates in Europe (with some exceptions) were relatively low in 2023. The risk-free rate of investment in Portugal as of 2024 was *** percent.

Average market risk premium (MRP) in Portugal from 2011 to 2024

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

Portugal

Survey time period

2011 to 2024

Number of respondents

80 countries with 3,812 answers

Special properties

Finance and economics professors, analysts and managers

Method of interview

Email survey

Supplementary notes

The source added the following information "This paper contains the statistics of a survey about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2023 for 80 countries. We got answers for 102 countries, but we only report the results for 80 countries with more than 6 answers."
* No data available for 2016. 2017 data was taken from a previous report.

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