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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

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? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021).

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Discount Rate—Explanation, Definition and Examples

Valutico

Key takeaways: The discount rate is primarily used by central banks to manage the economy and investors to calculate the present value of future cash flows from an investment. It’s vital to determine the correct discount rate for company valuation, factoring in the time value of money. In this article, we cover the latter.

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IVSC Valuation Webinar Series 2024, Sponsored by Kroll

IVSC

Now in its fifth year, the IVSC is pleased to present the 2024 Valuation Webinar Series, sponsored by Kroll, running from 13-25 June 2024. The effects of COVID-19 fiscal spending are still being felt, with many governments experiencing high budget deficits, placing further upward pressure on interest rates.

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

Brian DeChesare

Convertible Bond Analysis – Notes and Presentation (PDF). Convertible bonds offer lower coupon rates than traditional bonds because they also include conversion options that allow investors to turn the bonds into common shares if the company’s stock price reaches a certain level (the “conversion price”). 29:05: Recap and Summary.

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Use of Discounted Cash Flow Approaches in US GAAP Accounting

ThomsonReuters

A discounted cash flow approach involves projecting a stream of cash flows for an item and then applying a discount rate to those cash flows to calculate a single value or a range of values for that item. The Codification often provides guidance on how to select a discount rate for a particular area of accounting.

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Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!

Musings on Markets

If, on the other hand, investors are risk neutral, the price of risk will be zero, and investors will buy risky business, stocks and other investments, and settle for the risk free rate as the expected return. Estimation Approaches Why is it so difficult to estimate an equity risk premium?