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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

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

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Discount rates in intrinsic valaution have to change to reflect current market conditions, and can be expected to change over time. Investment strategies that create concentrations in manufacturing and captial intensive companies need to be balanced with firms that have more flexible cost structures.

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

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As the risk-free rate rises, expected returns on equities will be pushed up, and holding all else constant, stock prices will go down., and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. But really the main driver in that first meeting is, “Hey, we’ve got to update the financial plan. Did things change significantly since we updated the plan?,” Cean: Correct. And so, this went on for probably two years.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

So it’s gonna take a little more confidence, you know, and equities to, because you get your, your hurdle rates higher, you know? So one would argue that having a greater concentration, you know, not, not to the extent, I mean, I, you know, mag, maybe it’s magnificent 50, maybe it’s magnificent 100 going forward.