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.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 10, 2025
Noise in predictions : One reason that the expert class is increasingly mistrusted is because of the unwillingness on the part of many in this class to admit to uncertainty in their forecasts for the future. Hiding behind their academic or professional credentials, they ask people to trust them to be right, but that trust has eroded.
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CFO News Room
JANUARY 20, 2023
That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts. If a firm is badly managed, and you expect it to remain badly managed, you can and should build in that expectation into your forecasts of that company’s earnings and value.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts. If a firm is badly managed, and you expect it to remain badly managed, you can and should build in that expectation into your forecasts of that company's earnings and value.
Global Finance
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Suppliers can instantly track invoice payments and upcoming payment totals for improved forecasting. MUFG says that clients who implement a dynamic discounting offering enjoy a typical average annualized yield of between 10% and 12% APR, significantly outperforming most internal investment hurdle rates or returns on short-term cash.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 20, 2021
With an index like the S&P 500, you can outsource these estimates at least for the near years, by looking at consensus forecasts from analysts tracking the index. Risk free rates over time : While it is generally not a good idea to play interest rate forecaster, we are in unusual times, with rates close to all time lows.
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.
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