Strategic Treasurer

JUNE 27, 2022

What Are the Disadvantages of Hurdle Rate? Investments require a certain minimum rate of return to make them worthwhile. On this podcast, Craig Jeffery and Paul Galloway continue their discussion on investment returns with a specific look into Hurdle Rate. Treasury Technology Analyst Report. Episode 207.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. Why does the risk-free rate matter? What is a risk free investment?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. Since my interests lie in corporate finance and valuation, the statistics that I compute are numbers that I will find useful when doing a corporate financial analysis or valuation of a company.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

Finance Both Bitcoin and Ethereum delivered spellbinding returns in 2020, with Bitcoin up more than 300% and Ethereum up 469%. Treasury bond prices moved inversely with stock prices , at least during 2020. I computed daily returns on treasury bonds, including the price change effect of interest rates changing.)

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. According to Chancellor, interest is the single most important feature of finance, both ancient and modern.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So, you know, after I, I, so what I did was I was looking around for finance jobs, and obviously you’re not gonna hire, you know, a pre-med bio major, an English writing major. A finance m and a right’s the way that’s how it goes. I had no finance background. You, you mentioned the fed raising rates.

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