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.

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Hurdle Rate Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies 72

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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Hurdle Rate Treasury Investments Securities 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Employee Count & Compensation I nvesting Principle Financing Principle Dividend Principle Hurdle Rate Project Returns Financing Mix Financing Type Cash Return Dividends/Buyback s 1. Insider, CEO & Institutional holdings 2. Aggregate operating numbers 3. Beta & Risk 1. Return on Equity 1. Debt Ratios & Fundamentals 1.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Finance Numbers 119

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).

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Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 20, 2021

Put simply they look at a long time period in the past (50 years or even 100 years) and look at the premium that stocks earned over a risk free investment (treasury bills or bonds); that historical risk premium then gets used as a measure of the current equity risk premium. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question.

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Treasury Investments Valuation Marketing 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside.

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Profit and Loss Investments Hurdle Rate Accounting 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The conventional approach to measuring this premium is looking at past returns on stocks and treasuries (or something close to riskfree) and measuring the difference in historical returns and I report the updated levels (through 2020) for historical premiums for stocks over treasuries in this dataset.

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52