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Data Update 4 for 2022: Risk = Danger + Opportunity!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will start with a working definition of riskt that we can get some degree of agreement about, and then look at multiple measures of risk, both at the company and country level. In corporate finance, this takes the form of a hurdle rate , a minimum acceptable return on an investment, for it to be funded. What is risk?

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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

Click to Download: ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up? This work can be used to reconcile and support an adjustment to the CAPM, then the WACC, via Alpha and Beta. It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. Executive Summary.

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Customers are at the heart of what we do – and what you do, too

ThomsonReuters

To establish this vision, we started with understanding you, our customers, and the challenges a changing environment present to your business and your clients’ finances. Our Onvio Tax Beta in early 2021 yielded a number of valuable lessons and allowed us to sharpen our focus on performance and ease of use.

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Multi-Manager Hedge Funds: A Meritocratic Paradise or a Revolving Door of Burnout?

Brian DeChesare

There are only a few dozen large funds in this category worldwide, but they’ve greatly impacted the markets and finance careers. Beta-Neutral Portfolios: For example, if the S&P 500 goes up or down by 5%, your team’s portfolio should move by ~0%. Up or Out: You’ll be fired if you do very poorly (i.e.,

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Keeping Seniors With Dementia Safely Connected by Phone

Lighter Capital

His Challenges As a Caregiver Were Not Unique Tavis and his wife were living in the Dallas Fort-Worth area when his mom, who lived in a different suburb, started showing early signs of dementia. As his mom’s condition worsened, so did the bills and charges that accumulated when she picked up the phone.

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

Brian DeChesare

But before delving into the best candidates for these roles, typical trades, careers, and more, let’s start with the basic definitions: What is a Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Fund? If the stock price goes up or down by 10%, but the volatility stays the same, you might not earn or lose anything on the trade.

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

Musings on Markets

I also start thinking about my passion, which is teaching, the spring semester to come, and the classes that I will be teaching, repeating a process that I have gone through every year since 1984, my first year as a teacher. Face up to uncertainty, rather than avoid or deny it : Uncertainty is a feature of investing/ business, not a bug.