Equity Market Risk Risk Premium Specific Risk 
Valutico
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
The discount rate effectively encapsulates the risk associated with an investment; riskier investments attract a higher discount rate. Different types of discount rates such as risk-free rate, cost of equity, or cost of debt, are used contextually in financial analysis.
Andrew Stolz
AUGUST 5, 2020
If an investor moves money from the risk-free asset into the stock market, they should expect to earn a return in excess of the risk-free rate, what is called an equity risk premium. Investments are exposed to two types of risk: systematic and unsystematic. E(r) = Rf + ??(Rm
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Cost of raising funds (capital) : Since the funds that are invested by a business come from equity investors and lenders, one way in which the hurdle rate is computed is by looking at how much it costs the investing company to raise those funds. as mature markets.
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