Market risk premium (MRP) in Belgium compared to Europe 2014-2020

This statistic shows the market risk premium (MRP) in Belgium compared to Europe from November 2014 to February 2021. Market risk premiums indicate the additional return an investor receives for holding a risky market portfolio instead of risk-free assets and, together with the risk-free rate of return, makes up the expected return on the market portfolio. The MRP is part of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) used by analysts and investors to calculate the acceptable rate of return. In Belgium, it can be seen that the average market risk premium fluctuated between six and nine percent between 2014 and 2018, only reaching 10.58 percent in January 2018. In 2017, the yield on ten-year government bonds in Belgium reached 0.73 percent.