Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A key tool in both endeavors is a hurdle rate a rate of return that you determine as your required return for business and investment decisions. It deepens the acquaintance because you encounter hurdle rates in almost every aspect of finance, and it ruins it, by making these hurdle rates all about equations and models.

Hurdle Rate

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

With this investment, you face price risk , since even though you know what you will receive as a coupon or cash flow in future periods, since the present value of these cash flows, will change as rates change. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Let me see if I can go to grad school, continue this education. So you’ve got, you’ve got a modeling hurdle rate that you need to figure out when you’re adding diversifiers. If I have a, a bond benchmark and 40% of that is treasuries, how am I supposed to, what am I supposed to do with all that dead asset?

Leverage