Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In particular, there are wide variations in how risk is measured, and once measured, across companies and countries, and those variations can lead to differences in expected returns and hurdle rates, central to both corporate finance and investing judgments. What's coming?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. If there is a hole in my sample, it is the absence of privately owned businesses.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Accounting was very difficult. It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. So it’s gonna take a little more confidence, you know, and equities to, because you get your, your hurdle rates higher, you know? Safe harbor harbor here, a little apo apocalyptic currency. I had no finance background.

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