Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 31, 2022

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.”. The time to expiration or maturity is further away – because there’s more time for the stock price to go up.

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Valutico

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More importantly, we’ll dig deeper into how discount rates can influence investment choices and how they’re used to figure out a company’s worth. What is a discount rate? The “discount rate” does two main things. For central banks like the Federal Reserve, it helps control the economy.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For the right person, though, fixed income research can be even better than equity research, whether you’re at a bank, an asset management firm, a hedge fund, or a credit rating agency: Table of Contents: What is Fixed Income Research? Rates: Is the “risk-free rate” truly risk-free ?

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment? What is a risk free investment?

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Musings on Markets

MAY 24, 2021

Implicit in this definition are two key components of inflation. The first is that to define purchasing power, you have to start with a definition of what you are purchasing, and this detail, as we will see, can lead to differences in inflation measured over a given period, across measures/services.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 25, 2023

The second is that what comprises default in the sovereign CDS market may not coincide with investor definitions of default , though there are approaches that can be used to back out the likelihood of default from a CDS value.

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