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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. It’s better to define minimally acceptable revenues, profits and cash flows and then identify the assumptions that must prove true to make those financials happen. which will be part of the allowable cost.

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

Musings on Markets

Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?