Dietary fiber is the edible parts of plants or analogous carbohydrates that are resistant to digestion and absorption in the human small intestine, with complete or partial fermentation in the large intestine. Dietary fiber includes polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, lignin, and associated plant substances.
The theoretical rate of return attributed to an investment with zero risk. The risk-free rate represents the interest on an investor's money that he or she would expect from an absolutely risk-free investment over a specified period of time. Next Up.
1) Required market risk premium: the return of a portfolio over the risk-free rate (such as that of treasury bonds) required by an investor; 2) Historical market risk premium: the historical differential return of the market over treasury bonds; and.