CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. Costs grow at a slower rate than revenues. Superior unit economics. Economies of scale.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. I will use this data to draw three broad conclusions: Low Hurdle Rate ?

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

The first is that there is no risk that the issuer of the security will default on their contractual commitments. 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.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

In my last post , I described the wild ride that the price of risk took in 2020, with equity risk premiums and default spreads initially sky rocketing, as the virus led to global economic shutdowns, and then just as abruptly dropping back to pre-crisis levels over the course of the year. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question.

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Currencies Investments Marketing Treasury 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. In the late 1990s, it was an economic recession that was the precipitating factor, but the last three increases in delinquencies have had their origins in other forces. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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Corporate Finance Finance Marketing Leverage 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And I actually — one of my last projects at GMO was to do a sort of — to look at what was going on from economic sentiment perspective, looking at various different measures in a bull bear ratio, amount of margin loans in system. Essentially, that’s what interest rates allow. back in sort of 2012.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. ” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. gains tax rate where some of these clients are retiring early before they turn pension and Social Security on.

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Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130