Remove Hurdle Rate Remove Prioritization Remove Profit and Loss
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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

Musings on Markets

In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.

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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

Barry Ritholtz

And we had prioritized all our strategic plans, we had to figure out how to get them done while people were remote. And you know, just simple things like, hey, the value of tax loss harvesting, how do you make that apparent to people? You know, we’ve had been lucky, it’s been very profitable year after year.