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Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Funds: The Perfect Combination of Investment Banking and Sales & Trading?

Brian DeChesare

Traditionally, if someone asked the “ sales & trading vs. investment banking ” question, the response was easy: “Do banking unless you really, really like trading and could not imagine doing anything else.”. Investment Banking: 13%. It’s common to see gross exposure over 100% (e.g., Mixed IB / S&T Background: 6%.

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Discount Rate—Explanation, Definition and Examples

Valutico

For central banks like the Federal Reserve, it helps control the economy. They set this rate to affect how much money moves through banks and influences short-term interest rates. We are going to focus on how discount rates are used in the context of investment, rather than in the context of central banks.

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Review the concept of WACC

Andrew Stolz

A firm borrows from banks or bondholders and it has to pay the interest. The formula implies the return an investor expects from a risk-free investment plus the return from the stock in relation to market volatility. The market risk premium is calculated from a market rate of return less a risk-free rate.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

While much of the discussion of this measure gets mired in the capital asset pricing model, and the supposed adequacies and inadequacies of beta, I think that too much is made of it, and that the model is adaptable enough to allow for other measures of relative risk. Corporate Default Risk , i.e,

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ISS Discusses the Latest in ESG and Stewardship Regulation

Reynolds Holding

The latest taxonomy was developed through a collaboration between the Peoples Bank of China (PBOC), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and the European Union Directorate-General of the European Commission for Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA).