Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

Washington Post ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Aswath Damodaran , Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His textbook “ Investment Valuation ” is the standard in the field. TBP ) see also Could Direct Indexing Lower Your Taxes? class nine times.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say.

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