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Category: Principles of Corporate Finance – by F. Allen, R. A. Brealey, & S. Myers

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Risk & Return

Ideas on Risk and Return The ideas about risk and return belong to Harry Markowitz, who published his work back in 1952. It is said that it didn’t […]

December 22, 2024 Basic
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Financial Risk

How is Portfolio Risk Calculated? In the previous entry, I discussed the essence of diversification. Now let’s take a look at specific formulas, as shown in the image. […]

December 22, 2024 Basic
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Project vs Organizational Risk

Factors Influencing Systemic Risk of a Project and How It May Differ from an Organization’s Systemic Risk When a specific project differs from the core operations of an […]

December 22, 2024 Basic
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Certainty Equivalent

Valuation models for derivative assets hold the same significance in finance as relativity theories do in physics… In this entry, I want to address the method of discounting […]

December 22, 2024 Basic
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CAPM-Model

Why is Understanding the CAPM Model Crucial for Senior Management? Given that the main task of management, particularly strategic financial management, is to increase the value of the […]

December 22, 2024 Basic
Market Efficiency

CAPM Pitfalls-1

If you plan to profit from investing in stocks, take a close look at this graph. The graph highlights two significant phenomena that the Capital Asset Pricing Model […]

December 22, 2024
Market Efficiency

CAPM Pitfalls-2

Regardless of the level of diversification, why is it more rational to invest in a low β portfolio than a high β one? The issue is that CAPM’s […]

December 22, 2024