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IVSC Webinars Series 2023 – Bios

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She was also a contributing author to the chapter "Risk-Free Rate" in the fifth edition. She set up American Appraisal Singapore operations in 2012, which later got acquired by Duff & Phelps which has now been rebranded as Kroll. She is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars.

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Breaking Down the Delaware Supreme Court’s DFC Global Decision**

Appraisal Rights

Indeed, the Supreme Court stated that appraisal actions had the most utility when private companies were being acquired, or where public companies were being sold in a conflicted buyout, in which case market prices would be either unavailable or unreliable.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

That said, when investors buy equities, it would be both irrational and illogical to settle for expected returns that are less than what you can earn on risk free or guaranteed investments, though behavioral finance suggests that both irrationality and illogic are persistent human traits. Stocks: The What Next?

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The Price of Risk: With Equity Risk Premiums, Caveat Emptor!

Musings on Markets

In short, the expected return on a risky investment can be constructed as the sum of the returns you can expect on a guaranteed investment, i.e., a riskfree rate, and a risk premium, which will scale up as risk increases. The risk premium that you demand has different names in different markets.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

That said, there are some of you who are not doing your analysis in real time, either because you are in the appraisal business and must value your company as of the start of 2020 or 2021, or a researcher looking at changes over time. will reflect the most recent quarterly accounting filing.

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