Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. 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.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

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Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We’ve always been a virtual company, just used to be through the mail and 1-800 number when I joined. So that’s a number I hadn’t seen before. Number one, you put it back into the business. That means a low hurdle rate. And straight up, the number is huge. BUCKLEY: Yeah. We’re 99.97

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. That’s right.

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Finance Marketing Numbers Investments 59

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Let me see if I can go to grad school, continue this education. Honest back testing, really looking at the numbers versus exaggerating returns and, and making up the claim that something’s live when it’s not. 12, 14 even that not a lot of numbers. And that’s how I ended up at Carnegie Mellon.

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Leverage Investments Marketing Math 59