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Schuldscheindarlehen.
 
German loan instruments, more commonly known as Schuldscheine.
The theoretical rate of investment returns which can be earned on hypothetical investments which are considered to be risk-free for modelling purposes.
 
The Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) incorporates this type of risk-free rate.
 
 
Historically, the rates of return on certain types of domestic central government debt were considered to be a close enough proxy for such hypothetical risk-free investments.
 
In the modern era, domestic central government debt is no longer considered to be risk-free for this purpose, nor for a number of other purposes for which it was historically considered to be risk-free.
 
 
====Interest rate benchmarks====
 
The term 'risk-free rates' (RFRs) is also used in the context of interest rate benchmark rates.
 
For example, risk-free rates that might be used as alternatives to LIBOR.
 


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Benchmark]]
* [[Schuldschein]]
* [[Capital asset pricing model]]
* [[Credit spread ]]
* [[Gilts]]
* [[Interest rate risk]]
* [[LIBOR]]
* [[RFR]]
* [[Risk-free rates]]
 
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Schuldscheindarlehen. German loan instruments, more commonly known as Schuldscheine.

See also