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How to Value a Real Estate Holding Company

BV Specialists

Appraising a real estate holding company requires a nuanced understanding of both financial analysis and the real estate market. These companies typically own, manage, or develop real estate assets, and measuring their worth combines elements of traditional corporate finance with property-specific metrics.

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Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

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 few years ago, I wrote a paper for practitioners on the cost of capital , where I described the cost of capital as the Swiss Army knife of finance, because of its many uses.

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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

For policymakers, our findings suggest that the token market may to some extent become more efficient on its own because intermediaries reduce costly frictions and have an incentive to do so because they benefit from above-market risk-adjusted returns.

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Corporate Treasurers Proceeding With Caution

Global Finance

Kelly Wen, BNY: Industries that face greater risks are seeing banks becoming more selective in making capital available to them.

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The Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office: How Banks Organize Their Dungeons

Brian DeChesare

Middle Office: In these roles, you “support” the front office with tasks such as managing the market risk on trades, managing liquidity for the bank’s operations (treasury), and determining the credit risk of counterparties in trades.

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Best Financial Innovations 2024

Global Finance

Not only can market risk be better monitored, but market costs can be saved for participants: about $30 million so far, estimates CCDC. (CCDC), recently rolled out one of the world’s first public platforms for blockchain-based digital bond issuance.

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Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Funds: The Perfect Combination of Investment Banking and Sales & Trading?

Brian DeChesare

Convertible Arbitrage Definition: Convertible arbitrage is a relative value strategy in which a hedge fund profits based on the pricing discrepancy between a company’s convertible bonds and its underlying stock; the fund exploits changes in volatility, credit quality, and interest rates to make money while minimizing overall market risk.

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