Equidam

JUNE 30, 2025

DCF with Startup Adaptations – Build realistic financial projections with appropriate survival rate adjustments – Use current market discount rates that reflect the higher interest rate environment – Apply proper illiquidity discounts for private company shares 3. Here’s how Equidam approaches this: 1.

Equity

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment? Why does the risk-free rate matter?

Risk-free Rate

ThomsonReuters

MAY 6, 2021

The Codification often provides guidance on how to select a discount rate for a particular area of accounting. The Codification may require the use of a risk-free rate in some places and a risk-adjusted rate in others. The risk premium may incorporate factors such as credit risk or market illiquidity.

Discounted Cash Flow

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In this section, I will begin measures of country default risk, including sovereign ratings and CDS spreads, before moving to more expansive measures of country risk before concluding with measures of equity risk premiums for countries, a pre-requisite for estimating the values of companies with operations in those countries.

Risk Premium